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CIVIL WAR DAYS - HANCOCK COUNTY AND VICINITY Compiled and edited by Clyde Cucullu Historian - Hancock County Historical Society
At a meeting of the citizens of the city of Shieldsborough in the County of Hancock, Miss., held in said city on the 8th of November, 1860, Julius C. Monet was unanimously called to the chair, who in a few remarks stated the object of the meeting to be the consideration of the present aspect of the affairs of the Slaveholding States, now that the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency was ascertained beyond any reasonable doubts, and consult as to measures to be adopted to meet the emergency created by said election. On the motion of Robert Eager, Esq., Napoleon Monet was appointed Secretary of the Meeting.
On the motion of Robert M. Bradford composed of Messrs. Robert Eager, John H. Toor, was appointed by the chair to tions expressive of the sense of the appointment retiree! to discharge the
a committee of three
V.	Toulme, and Peter draft suitable resolu-meeting; who upon their duties devolved upon them by their appointment, and who after a short absense returned into the meeting and reported the following Preamble and Resolutions, to wit:
Whereas the telegraphic wires have brought to us the appalling news that Abraham Lincoln and Hanibal Hamelin had been elected by the people President and Vice President of these United States, two Republicans of the blackest die, and avowed enemies to the cherished institutions of the South, and to the equality of the slave holding states in the Union, which election renders it necessary for our protection promptly to adopt such measures as may tend to diminish if not eradicate the evils resulting therefrom to the slave holding states, Therefore be it Resolved:
1st That the election of a Black Republican as President of these United States being now certain, we concur in the opinion that the whole South ought to prepare at once to meet the emergencies arising out	of such	election,	and	that the
State of Mississippi should	be ready and take	the	lead in the
adoption of the necessary measures to remedy such evil, and call upon her sister slave holding states to meet her in Council as soon as possible to consult as to the proper steps to be taken for their mutual protection.
Resolved 2nd That we have learned with pleasure, and heartily approve of the intention of Governor Pettus to convene the Legislature of the State of Mississippi as soon as the fact of the election of	a Black	Republican as	President
could be ascertained and we	readily	concur in	the	opinion
that a State Convention should be called by the Legislature at an early day to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to place the State of Mississippi in its proper place among her sister slave holding states.
Resolved 3rd That we as Southerners view the election of a Black Republican to the Presidency as a public calamity to the slave holding states, to which there is no remedy, except
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