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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Northern Congress.--the Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! (search)
glad, however, that when the country was reeling with anarchy, the gentleman should be so desirous of vindicating the decency and dignity of the House. Mr. Burnett, of Kentucky, also protested against the admission of those claiming to represent Virginia here. In their claim were involved questions of the gravest importance. If Virginia was yet in the Union, as some contended she was, then the power of the State Convention to prohibit, as is aid, the Congressional elections on the 23d of May, must be conceded, and there gentlemen, a portion only of whom were elected on the day legally fixed for such elections, can have no standing here; but if they come as delegates from a new State, then their recognition and admission would carry with it the assumed power of this body to admit new States. One of these gentlemen is according to his own confession, a citizen of the State of Ohio, yet he claims to represent Virginia here in regulating citizenship within her boundaries. He