[Arkansas]:

$4,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPITOL IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY ... An account of the proceedings at the first meeting of the Secession Convention held in Arkansas, in March 1861. This was the beginning of the secession debate in Arkansas - they would put off the final decision until August. This convention calls for an election over the issue of secession, includes a draft of an Arkansas secession ordinance ("An Ordinance, To dissolve the Union between the State of Arkansas and the other States united with her under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America'"), and prints the South Carolina secession ordinance in the Appendix, along with detailed arguments for secession. Inevitably, the convention addressed the question of African-American slavery; a resolution from March 11, shrouding a pro-slavery argument in the cloth of the Constitution, reads:"Resolved, That it is the deliberate sense of this convention, that African negroes, and the descendants of the African race, denominated slaves by all the constitutions of the southern slaveholding states, is property to all intents and purposes, and ought of right to be so considered by all the northern states, being expressly implied by the constitution of the United States; and a denial on the part of the people of the northern states, of the right of property in slaves o

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