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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Mr. Davis enters the Committee. Mr. Toombs, Mr. Crittenden, and Mr. Davis submit propositions.
Resolved, That said laws should secure to the alleged fugitive slave, when he shall claim that he is not a fugitive slave, a jury trial before he shall be delivered to the claimant in the State from which he fled.