1861.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 297

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r, Holland, Pitts,

Rasin, Maxwell, Harrison,

Welch, Miller, Thomas,

Mackubin, Bryan, Wallis,

Briscoe, Wootton, Sangston,

Burgess, Jones, of P. G., Morfit,

Ford, Legg, Scott,

Denison, Jacobs, Coudy,

Quinlan, Landing, Griffith,

Renshaw, Kessler, Gordon,

Jones, of Talbot, Salmon, Barnard,

Chaplain, Warfield, Mills,

Dennis, of Som't, Brune, Turner—39.

NEGATIVE.
Messrs.

Mclntire, McCoy, Roop,
Naill, Fiery, Gorsuch—8.
Wilson, McCleary,

The House then proceeded to the consideration of the sec-
ond resolution.

Mr. Fiery proposed the following amendment:

But the Federal Government has power, and it is the duty
of those in authority to execute the laws of the Union, to
suppress insurrection and repel invasion, as set forth in the
8th section of the 1st article of the Constitution of the United
States.

Mr. Scott proposed the following substitute:

Strike out down to the word " believe" in the third line
and insert "that we do not."

Mr. Pitts proposed the following, as a substitute for the
proposed amendment:

Resolved, That the right of separation from the Federal
Union is a right neither arising under nor prohibited by the
Constitution, but a sovereign right, independent of the Con-
stitution, to be exercised by the several States upon their own
responsibility.

Which was adopted.

The question then recurring upon the resolution as amend-
ed, it was adopted