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MISSISSIPPI. 



Jive to Jefferson Davis 

 House: yeas 75, nays 0. 



were passed m the 



Resolved, That this body desires to express to Jef- 

 ferson Davis their deepest sympathy, their profound 

 respect, their combined personal attachment, and 

 their enduring remembrance of his virtues as a man, 

 and of those great qualities of mind and heart which, 

 in the cabinet and field, in power and in misfortune, 

 have marked his eventful life, and which, from his 

 prison-house, call forth and receive at their hands 

 the same acknowledgment of love and regard that 

 they did when he breathed the air of freedom. 



Resolved, That the members of the House look 

 upon the confinement of Mr. Davis as a State prisoner 

 and without judicial powers, continued now nearly 

 eighteen months, as unwarrantable by the Constitu- 

 tion and the law, and in the n4ne of common hu- 

 manity they urge his immediate release, or at least 

 that speedy trial which every man has a right to 

 claim under the Constitution when called upon to 

 answer to the courts of the country for his conduct. 



Resolved, That this House is desirous that able 

 members of the Mississippi bar should at once pro- 

 ceed to Virginia and actively engage in the defcnc* 

 of Mr. Davis, with a view to his release ; and tnat, 



