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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia State Convention. (search)
monwealth assembled in this hall, for the purpose of ratifying the Constitution of the United States. The one main object was to consolidate, not the Government, but the Union of these States. Causes which it is not now necessary to enumerate, but which are fast passing into history, have placed that Constitution in imminent peril. Virginia has been called to the rescue, and well might the call be made upon her, the country expects it at her hands. Her honored son, whose ashes rest at Mount Vernon, the political Mecca of all future ages, was the President of the body who framed the Constitution.--another son, whose brow was encircled with a civic wreath which never fades, was its Chief architect; and five of her native sons have been called to the position of Chief Magistrate of the Republic.--the responsibility resting upon us is tremendous. It cannot be that a Government thus founded can now be permitted to fail, without reproach to the wisdom of its founders, as well as our own