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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
It was no time now to change front; no time to seek a hiding place from the tempest of war. If we are to sink, let us sink where we stand, and go down with our ship with one triumphant shout of defiance, with the flag of Virginia--Sic Semper Tyrannis --floating over us. Mr. Burwell, of Bedford, was going to stick to the ship till she struck or run ashore; then he would build a raft of the fragments and see what could be done. He favored a convention, vested in the Legislature. Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, said that only when our armies were overthrown, the Confederacy torn limb from limb, and State from State, would he give his vote or consent to go into convention. Even up to the last extremity the honor and integrity of Virginia demanded that she should stand firm. If the Legislature be of the opinion that a convention is demanded, they should withdraw themselves from the possible imputation of being candidates for its membership. Mr. Staples obtained the floor, whe