Alex W. Randall to Richard Yates

Executive Office,

Madison, Wis., March 12, 1861.

To His Exe. the

Governor of Illinois

Sir:

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of Joint Resolutions, No. 28, expressing the Confidence of the People of Wisconsin in the present Administration of the Federal Government.

Yours, very Respectfully,

Alex. W. Randall.

State of Wisconsin

Joint Resolutions, No. 28.

Relating to the New Administration just Inaugurated.

Whereas, A new Administration of the Government has been inaugurated under circumstances of peculiar embarassment, with a dissatisfied People in one portion of the Union, seeming to hate the Union itself: And Whereas, The peace and prosperity of the Union depends upon its perpetuity, and its perpetuity depends upon the firmness and integrity of the Administration of the Government, sustained by a law=abiding, loyal and Union=loving People: And Whereas, The Inaugural Address of President Lincoln gives abundant evidence that he possesses that ability and firmness that will restore peace and prosperity to our beloved Union, by a strict adherence to all requirements of the Constitution and the Laws, showing favor to no one section of the Union over another, Therefore,

Resolved, By the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That in the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, we recognize the words of a true Patriot and the sagacious Statesman, and that we hail it as an omen that the Government of this Country is to be restored to its original purity, as founded by the Father of his Country, assisted by his Compatriots of Revolutionary memory.

Resolved, That, in the language of the Inaugural, "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better Angels of our nature."

Resolved, That we pledge the faith of the People of Wsiconsin, to aid the President of the United States in carrying out the principles indicated in his Inaugural Address to the fullest extent, putting into the scale, if need be, "Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to the President of the United States, to the Governor of each State in the Union, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Amasa Cobb,

Speaker of the Assembly.

Butler G. Noble,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved March 12, 1861,

Alex. W. Randall.

State of Wisconsin,

Secretary's office, }ss The Secretary of State, of the State of Wisconsin, hereby certifies that the foregoing Joint Resolution has been compared with the Original Enrolled Resolution deposited in this Office, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof, and of the whole of such original.

In witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State, at the Capitol, in Madison, this Twelfth day of March, A. D. 1861.

Louis P. Harvey, Secretary of State.

{L. S.}

Joint Resolution of the State of Wisconsin

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