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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Clarksville, Mecklenburg co., May 21, 1861. (search)
inia Convention, commands our unbounded admiration for the prompt, united and intrepid front with which they unfurled the banner of Independence the first moment that the real purposes of the military despotism at Washington were avowed. From that time to this, their whole souls have been given to the vindication of the honor and glory of Virginia; they are at this moment in the front rank of its armies; in every fight, they will be among the first, and in every retreat among the last. Augusta county, the great stronghold of Unionism in Virginia, has sent more men to the field than any other county in the State, and not a Union county can be named which is not attesting its devotion by sacrifices as great and courage as lofty as that which distinguished the most ardent advocates of prompt action in Virginia. We therefore invoke the enemies of Virginia no longer to lay the flattering unction to their souls that she is divided. She is "One and Indivisible," and ready and determin