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Meeting in Petersburg.

--A meeting was held in Petersburg, Va., Monday night, presided over by Wm.T. Joynes, A. F. Critchfield, of the Express, Secretary, at which resolutions were adopted declaring, "in view of the hopeless failure of all efforts on the part of the South to obtain a satisfactory adjustment," that it is the duty of Virginia to secede. It was further resolved that the delegate from Petersburg in the Convention present the resolutions to that body, and that on Wednesday, (to-day,) Thursday and Friday, the resolutions be submitted to the people of Petersburg to be voted on at the polls. The meeting is described as having been quite disorderly, both Messrs. Chas. F. Collier and Roger A. Pryor, who advocated the resolutions, finding much difficulty in overcoming the noisy interruptions sufficiently to address the assemblage. The Intelligencer says there seemed to be "a fixed determination to prevent any action at all."

The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 13, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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