Southern senators and congressmen meet in Washington and produce the "Southern Manifesto"

With disunion talk everywhere, twenty southern U.S. senators and representatives gathered at the Washington D.C. lodgings of Congressman Reuben Davis of Mississippi, ostensibly to seek a compromise position for the South.  By evening's end, at 11 p.m., however, they had produced what came to be called the "Southern Manifesto" that stated that only an independent "Southern Confederacy" could save the South and called for independent state secession. (By John Osborne)