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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The rights and duties of Co-Partnership. (search)
The North Carolina Convention.
[From the Raleigh Register, May 22d.]
This body — the most important that has convened in this State since the one which set forth the famous declaration of 1775--met on Monday last, at 11 o'clock A. M., in the Commons Hall of the Capitol.
Considering that the election of delegates took place so recently, there was a remarkably full attendance of members, there being present 111 out of 120 elected.
The body is a remarkably fine looking and intelligent assemblage, and in it may be found a good deal of the first talent in the country.
Before the hour of meeting the gallery was densely crowded by ladies and gentlemen, and every place on the floor without the bar of the House crammed with male spectators.
The venerable Weldon N. Edwards who was bred at the feet of Nathaniel Macon, was chosen to preside over the deliberations of the body, and Walter L. Steele and L. C. Edwards chosen as principal and assistant Secretaries.
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