I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof, as the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution and laws of the State of Virginia, or in the ordinances of the Convention which assembled in Richmond on the 13th day of February last, to the contrary notwithstanding, and that I will uphold and defend the Government of Virginia as vindicated and restored by the Convention which assembled in Wheeling on the 11th day of June, 1861.
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administering your wishes, and in trying to carry out the great object we have been working for here, and for which we expect to work for some time to come.
I thank you, gentlemen.
(Great applause.)
The following is the oath taken by the newly-elected State officers:
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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