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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
slature to-day to put the State in an of defence, and he intended to offer a resolution instructing that body to appropriate money and devise a plan. He hoped the Convention would not commit itself to any half-way measures. Mr. Leake, of Goochland, asked what was the question before the Convention? The President replied that the resolution of the gentleman from Chesterfield was under consideration. Mr. Leake proposed to amend the resolution by striking out all after the word "Re anticipated, had come, it was the duty of the friends of the Union to stand firm. Mr. Branch, of Petersburg, approved the original resolution. It contained something practical, and was easy to understand; while that of the gentleman from Goochland was a volume of words, the application of which it was difficult to appreciate. He was opposed to hasty action. Mr. Early, of Franklin, reminded the Convention that only a telegraphic copy of the Inaugural had yet been received, and it wo
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana. He has been in Congress, and was Commissioner to Mexican claims. Edward Bates, Attorney General. Edward Bates was born on the 4th of September, 1793, on the banks of James river, in the county of Goochland. Virginia, about 30 miles above Richmond. He was the seventh son and youngest child of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to a mature age, Thomas Bates and Caroline M. Woodson. After the death of his parents he was educated by hSt. Louis, and follow the law, offering to see him safely through his course of study. He accepted the invitation, and was to have started in the spring of 1813, but an unlooked for event detained him for a year — Being in his native county of Goochland, a sudden call was made for volunteers to march for Norfolk, to repel an apprehended attack by the British fleet, and he joined a company in February, marched to Norfolk, and served to October of that year, as private, corporal, and sergeant su