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ng out the mode of redress for our grievances. Mr. Collier said he was so much pleased with the bill as it then stood, that he could not trust himself to speak. He moved the previous question. At the request of sundry members, he withdrew the same. Mr. Lundy said his constituents had spoken in favor of a Convention, but the bill before the House did not meet his approbation. It was too namby pamby. It did not declare our purposes and wishes with sufficient distinctness. Mr. Bassell spoke of the conservatism of Virginia, her long forbearance under manifold wrong, and her right of redress. He wanted a straight-out Convention, charged with the duty of speaking the voice of the people. He would vote for the bill, though he could not approve of many of its provisions. Mr. Booker favored the passage of the bill as it now read. Mr. Jones, of Appomattox, wanted a Convention untrammeled by legislative enactments--one acquainted with our wrongs, and one vested wit