[45] This minority report was signed by Clemens of Madison, Lewis of Lawrence, Winston of De Kalb, Kimball of Tallapoosa, Watkins of Franklin, and Jemison of Tuscaloosa, all from north Alabama.
[46] c.=coöperationist; s.=secessionist; cs.=coöperationist who voted for secession.
[47] It was he who compiled the debates of the convention.
[48] He was the oldest general officer in the Confederate service.
[49] Constitution, Article I, Section X: “No state shall without the consent of Congress enter into any agreement or compact with another state,” etc.
[50] He was here referring indirectly to the action of the state authorities in seizing the forts at Pensacola and Mobile before secession.
[51] Clemens was accused of voting for secession in order to obtain the command of the militia. He had formerly been an army officer, and was now made major-general of militia. It was not long before he deserted and went North.
[52] Who succeeded Yancey in the convention after the latter was sent to Europe.
[53] The present (1905) senior U. S. senator from Alabama.
[54] Bulger of Tallapoosa, Jones and Wilson of Fayette, and Sheets of Winston voted in the negative.