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State of West Virgina,
In the Virginia Secession Convention the members from the western or mountainous districts were nearly all Unionists.
Before the adjournment of that convention the inhabitants of the mountain region had met at various places to consult upon public affairs.
At the first of these, at Clarksburg, April 22, 1861, John S. Carlile, a member of the convention, offered a series of resolutions calling an assembly of delegates of the people at Wheeling, on May 13.
They were adopted.
At a meeting at Kingwood, in Preston county (May 4), it was declared that the separation of western from eastern Virginia was essential to the maintenance of their liberties.
They also resolved to so far defy the Confederate authorities of the State as to elect a representative in the national Congress.
Similar sentiments were expressed at other meetings.
The convention of delegates met at Wheeling on the appointed day. A large number of counties were represented by almost 400 deleg