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Journal
of the
House of Representatives of the State of Missouri.
Begun and held in the town of Neosho, on the 21st day of October, Eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor, issued on the26th day of September last, it being the Third
Session of the Twenty-First General Assembly.
Hon. John McAfee, Speaker of the House, took the Chair, and called
the House to order; and, also, ordered the clerk to read the following.
Proclamation.
To the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives
Of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri:
The Constitution of the State of Missouri vests in me the power to
convene by proclamation, the General Assembly on extraordinary occasions,
and requires me to state to then the purposes for which they are convened.
The present condition of the State makes it eminently proper that I
should now exercise this power.
The Federal authorities have, for months past, in violation of the
Constitution of the United States, waged a ruthless war upon the people
of the State of Missouri , murdering our citizens , destroying our proper-
ty, and, as far as in their power lay, desolating our land. I have in
vain endeavored to secure your constitutional rights by peaceful means,
and have only resorted. to war when it became necessary to repel the most
cruel and long continued aggressions. War now exists between the State of
Missouri, and the Fed-
