le of amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.

Mr. RANDOLPH:--I move the adoption of the preamble, and that the same,
with the propositions already adopted, be authenticated by the present
Secretary, and that all be presented by the President of this
Convention to the Senate and House of Representatives, with a
respectful request for their passage.

This motion was agreed to.

Mr. BARRINGER:--As the labors of the Convention are now closed, I
presume there is no occasion for continuing the injunction of secrecy.
As notes of the proceedings have been taken with a view, I presume, to
publication, I now move that the injunction of secrecy against
speaking of the action of the Convention, or the publication of its
proceedings, be removed.

The motion of Mr. BARRINGER was agreed to by a _viva voce_ vote.

Mr. JOHNSON:--I desire here to have printed in the Journal the
following resolution.

Leave was granted to Mr. JOHNSON as requested, and his resolution was
as follows:

_Resolved_, That while the adoption, by the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Texas, of ordinances declaring the dissolution of their
relation with the Union, is an event deeply to be deplored;
and while abstaining from any judgment on their conduct, we
would express the earnest hope that they may soon see cause
to resume their honored places in this Confederacy of
States; yet to the end that such return may be facilitated,
and from the conviction that the Union being formed by the
assent of the people of the respective States, and being
compatible only with freedom, and the republican
institutions guaranteed to each, cannot and ought not to be
maintained by force, we deprecate any effort by the Federal
Government to coerce in any form the said States to reunion
or submission, as tending to irreparable breach, and leading
to incalculable ills; and we earnestly invoke the abstinence
from all counsels or measures of compulsion toward them.

Mr. POLLOCK:--The Committee on Finance have made an examination of the
expenses which have been incurred for printing, stationery, &c., by
the Conference. It has been, already stated that the expense of
printing the Journal is met by the city of Washington. The additional
expense incurred amounts to $735. If this is equally apportioned among
the States represented it