A committee formed through a resolution submitted by Mr. Powell on December 6, 1860 and adopted on December 18, 1860. The role of the committee was to examine the conflict between slaveholding and non-slaveholding States and provide solutions and concessions to avoid secession.
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The Committee considers Mr. Toombs' compromise resolutions; documents introduced in Senate by Mr. Bigler and Mr. Pugh are laid before the Committee.
Resolved, That under the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution, Congress should pass an efficient law for the punishment of all persons engaged in the armed invasion of any State from another, and also all attempts to excite insurrection in any State by the people of any other State, [+e897161]by combinations of individuals, and punishing all persons in complicity therewith, on trial and conviction in the State and district where their acts of complicity were committed, in the federal courts.