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Defensive Preparations.
--If any one doubts that the South is in earnest in her present attitude, a visit to the Tredegar Works, in this city, will dispel the delusion.
Even the "eminent Seward" might learn something from a survey of operations there at the present time.
We have heretofore noticed the shipment of formidable implements of war to the seceding States, and there are more of the same sort in preparation.
Two ten-inch Columbiads, destined for Alabama, are nearly completed; and two fierce-looking mortars, for South Carolina, will shortly be ready for the troops of that Republic.
In the casting of one mortar and one gun, last week, 23,000 pounds of metal were used.
Shell and cannon shot lay about promiscuously and in heaps, and a large number of men are engaged in the manufacture of these destructive messengers.
Several cannon, of large and small calibre, are in process of manufacture, or already completed, and in another department the gun-carriages are getting r
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
The Convention.
There will evidently be a large majority of so-called "Unionists" returned to the Convention.
But the term should not be misunderstood at the North.
It is indefinite in our Southern elections.
In Alabama, for instance, "Union" meant "co-operation, " and "co-operation" meant that when five States were out the co-operationists were ready to go.
The Virginia Convention, whatever be the party names applied to its members, will insist on a of our difficulties at this time in a proper manner; and the only question of difference among its members will be as to the length of time to be employed in efforts at the restoration of the Union.
On this point events will assist the body in coming to a proper conclusion, and when that is reached everybody will no doubt concur and co- operate.
As to the so-called "Union men" being submissionists, we need only point to John M. Speed and Thomas Branch. If they will submit to anything which Virginia ought to reject, we