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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Government at Washington, that Virginia will forthwith withdraw her support from the Federal Government, resume such powers as she has heretofore delegated in the Federal compact, and assume that separate and equal station among her sister States and the Nations of the earth that the stout hearts and strong arms of our ancestors extorted from the British throne — relying upon her sons to emulate the deeds of their sires and to hand down their rights unimpaired to their posterity. James W. Jackson, Esq., offered the following resolutions, which were adopted: 1st. Resolved, That we regard any Virginian who would accept office under the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, or continue to hold office under the General Government after his inauguration, as regardless of the honor of his State and untrue to any of its interests. 2d. Resolved, That we acknowledge the freedom of the ballot-box to its fullest extent, but that outrages have been committed by the election of Abra