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Cathotm closed the addr«it by urging all southerners to be twitted
and lor that pwpM* to adopt any BMexary measures. Beyond this
point be would mat advise fheaa. Me felt thai only If waited actios ■
should fall wovdd it be time Is decide what course should lie
The address was read to the reassembled agtety-Msight men on
Jatmary 15, 1849. Mtany of fhm r epr e sentatives rfor tbe most pa*!
Whigs, were not willing to follow Ms advice lest it embarrass the
incoming administration. Senator Berrien of Georgia, after pro* -
longed defeat©, proposed a substitute motion which called lor compro-
mise between the fforfh and South. Ho<well Cobb of the same, state
'also, made a minority motion which protested against theformation
of a soal&ern party, stating that the Democracy alone could im
the Union* Neither one of those efforts achieved much success and
after Calhoun. agreed to some changes in tbe wording, tbe address
was signed by forty-eight men from twelve stave-balding states. * .
Tbe Sooth wooid art least hear from Calhoun; whether or -wot they heeded
him would be another thing entirely.
Tbe border states responded to the call for waited actios in ,
vtyiw* ways. 'The Missouri legislators passed resolutions which
in essence pledged that state to cooperate with the other slave-holding
states In such measures as might be deemed necessary for their pro*
tectio® against northern fanatics. In Kentucky m controversy was
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Chappell, Ben A. The Southern Unity Movement, thesis, 1956; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107898/m1/33/: accessed May 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .