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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journal of the Confederate Congress --THIRTY-SIXTH DAY--MONDAY, January 6, 1862.
OPEN SESSION.
Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and was, on motion of Mr. Venable, organized by calling Mr. Campbell to the chair.
Prayer having been offered by the Rev. Dr. Hoge,
Mr. Ochiltree rose and announced the death of Mr. John Hemphill, a Delegate from the State of Texas, and moved the adoption of the following resolutions, to wit:
Whereas on Saturday, the fourth instant, at eleven o'clock ante meridian, Honorable John Hemphill, Delegate in the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, from the State of Texas, departed this life in this city; and this Congress, entertaining high consideration of the merits of the deceased, and deeply deploring the loss sustained by the Confederate States and the State of Texas, in the death of so ripe a statesman and jurist and sterling patriot, do adopt the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the members of this Congress, desirous of showing every mark of respect due to the memory of Honorable John Hemphill, deceased, late a member of the same from the State of Texas, will go into mourning by wearing crape on the left arm for thirty days.
Resolved, That as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, this Congress do now adjourn.
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Pending which,
Mr. Waul moved that a committee of one from each State be appointed by the Chair to make suitable arrangements for the funeral obsequies of Mr. Hemphill.
The motion was agreed to.
And the Chair announced the following as the committee:
Messrs. Curry of Alabama, Garland of Arkansas. Ward of Florida, Kenan of Georgia, Conrad of Louisiana, Orr of Mississippi, Clark of Missouri, White of Kentucky, Venable of North Carolina. Boyce of South Carolina, Atkins of Tennessee, Waul of Texas, and Seddon of Virginia.
The question then recurring upon the adoption of the resolutions of Mr. Ochiltree, and the same having been seconded by Messrs. Johnson of Arkansas, Venable of North Carolina, Boyce of South Carolina, and Pryor of Virginia, the question was put, and the resolutions unanimously adopted.
Whereupon,
The Chair declared the Congress adjourned until 12 o'clock m. to-morrow.
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