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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource]

e United States Government in its present aggressive war upon us.--Virginia has withdrawn from the Union under the Federal Constitution. Her people now owe exclusive allegiance to her, and none whatever to the United States. That she has this right to withdraw, (I speak not of the propriety of its exercise, because that question comes not within the range of judicial inquiry,) has long been my well-considered opinion; I may say I have never entertained a doubt with regard to it. When in June, 1776, our State threw off the English yoke, and declared herself a free and independent State, she at once became invested with all the rights of sovereignty.--She has never, so far as I can discover, at any time diverted herself of any of these rights. He people are now, as they were in 1776, and from that period have always been, a separate people, with every right that belongs to a free and independent nation. When on the 25th of June, 1788, she became a member of the Federal Union, she in

e never entertained a doubt with regard to it. When in June, 1776, our State threw off the English yoke, and declared herself a free and independent State, she at once became invested with all the rights of sovereignty.--She has never, so far as I can discover, at any time diverted herself of any of these rights. He people are now, as they were in 1776, and from that period have always been, a separate people, with every right that belongs to a free and independent nation. When on the 25th of June, 1788, she became a member of the Federal Union, she in no proper sense surrendered or lost any portion of her sovereignty. Her accession to the Union was simply an expression of the will of her people, in the exercise of their sovereignty, that certain governmental potters should be administered through the Government at Washington, whilst the residue were to be administered by the Government at Richmond. Not withstanding those grants of powers, it was her indubitable, unalienable and i

Judge Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, Va. The following is the main portion of Judge Richard Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, to which allusion was made yesterday: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:--We meet together at a most unfavorable time for the calm and proper discharge of our duties.--War, with its attendant evils, is raging along our borders, and seems each day to be approaching nearer and nearer to our homes and firesides. There is notJudge Richard Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, to which allusion was made yesterday: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:--We meet together at a most unfavorable time for the calm and proper discharge of our duties.--War, with its attendant evils, is raging along our borders, and seems each day to be approaching nearer and nearer to our homes and firesides. There is not one of us who can avoid partaking of the excitement which such a condition of affairs has aroused; and yet we must be careful, lest under its influence we needlessly trample down some great safe-guard of our liberties, or neglect duties imposed upon us, or perform them in a careless or inefficient manner. Times of war have their peculiar dangers, as well as their peculiar obligations. Whilst at such periods every good citizen will rally to the defence of his State, and be zealous to guard

States, have been entirely dissolved by the sovereign people of Virginia; and because of this, the Government of the United States is now waging war upon us. We thus stand towards each other in the attitude of enemies; and our Law declares that whom the Union under the Federal Constitution. Her people now owe exclusive allegiance to her, and none whatever to the United States. That she has this right to withdraw, (I speak not of the propriety of its exercise, because that question comes notart of her act of ratification, "that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression."--whilst she thus announced what was true, that these powers were derived, not from herself alone, but from the people of all the United States--and if perverted to their injury the same might be resumed by them — that is, by the other States as well as by herself, yet she