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The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
dopted, with like unanimity, declaring that any attempt to collect the revenue in the seceded States, to recapture the forts or reinforce those in the hands of the Government, would be an attempt at coercion which Virginia would be bound in honor to resist; against a Border State Convention; against any union with the North; in favor of Virginia acknowledging the independence of the Southern Confederacy; and approving the course of the Delegate and Senator in the Legislature, and the Hon. Daniel C. Dejarnette in Congress. The following resolution, offered by Dr. C. R. Weisiger, was unanimously adopted-- a resolution which it seems to us presents the whole case in a nut-shell, and is so plain that "the way-faring man, though a fool," &c. -- Here it is: Resolved, That neither slavery, nor any other institution, can be safe in a representative Government, with an overwhelming majority of the people opposed to its existence; and that we will regard any adjustment of our difficul
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal boiler Explosion. (search)
ion, and the union of Virginia with the Southern Confederacy--deprecating the course of the Convention — against a Conference with the Border States as merely a "device for delay"--denouncing as worthy of the scorn and reprobation of every true Virginian, any members of the Convention who may be in correspondence with the Black Republican Administration, directly or indirectly, devising means by which Virginia is to be held to the North--that the Convention should adjourn sine die --that any man who denies the sovereignty of Virginia "is a traitor to her rights, a falsifier of her history, and unworthy to be trusted in this hour of trial" --complimentary to Senators Hunter and Mason, and to the Hon. D. C. Dejarnette, and to Mr. Ambler, the delegate to the Convention. These resolutions, we repeat, were, in the large assemblage of all parties, unanimously adopted. Wm. G. T. Nelson was nominated for the Legislature, and declared that he endorsed the resolutions of the meeting.