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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Virginia State Convention.fifty-second day. Monday, April 15, 1861. The Convention assembled at 10 o'clock.--Prayer by the Rev. Francis J. Boons, Chaplain of the Seamen's Bethel. Report of the Commissioner. Mr. Preston, of Montgomery, one of the Commissioners appointed by the Convention to wait on the President of the Northern States, presented the following report: The Committee, appointed on the 8th inst. by this Convention, with direction to wait upon the President of the United States, and present to him the preamble and resolution adopted on that day, beg leave to report, in the fulfillment of their duty. They left the city of Richmond on the morning of the 9th instant, for Washington city they were however, prevented, by injuries sustained by the railroad from a violent and protracted storm, from reaching Washington until 11 o'clock on Friday, the 12th inst. At 1 o'clock on that day, they called on the President and informed him that they had been appoint
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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.flag-raising in Charlotte county--the war news — great enthusiasm. Keysville, Charlotte Co., Va.,April 15, 1861. We had quite an exciting time here last Saturday, it being muster day, and generally known around this neighborhood that a secession flag would be raised. A crowd gathered here at an early hour, which no doubt would have been three-fold increased but for the heavy showers of rain in the morning. At 12 o'clock the crowd met at the Masonic Hall, where eloquent and soul-inspiring addresses were delivered by John C. Hawlett, Jr., and Isaac R. Watkins, both of the speakers acquitting themselves handsomely. After paying a deserving compliment to our patriotic ladies--God bless them — who made and presented the Southern Confederated Flag, they proved how much more it was to the interest of Virginia to be with the South than remain the tail of a Northern Confederacy.--While speaking was going on the telegraph brought us the sa