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Virginia State Convention.forty-second day.
Wednesday, April 3, 1861.
The Convention assembled at 10 o'clock.--Prayer by the Rev, Mr. Willis, of the Baptist Church.
Equality of taxation.
Mr. Stuart, of Doddridge, being entitled to the floor on Mr. Willey's resolution, proceeded to address the Convention.
He regretted that so few of the Eastern members were in their seats, because it was to them that he desired chiefly to direct his remarks.
He had listened with much pleasure to the speech of Mr. Wise on the preceding evening, and gave his assurance that his efforts would be met by the Western people in a spirit of fraternity.-- He could not fold his arms and say "all is well." for we were involved in questions of great difficulty and doubt.
Alluding to the charge of unsoundness on the slavery question, he said that no charge of that nature had been made by any Eastern man; to a Western member belongs that honor, for he alone had done it.--He (Mr. S) claimed, that
The Convention.
Mr. Stuart, of Doddridge, continued the debate yesterday morning in favor of an ad valorem tax upon negroes; after which the Convention went into Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Scott, of Fauquier, took the floor, and held it until the recess, in an argument in favor of the Border Conference, which, in the event of a failure to received favorable responses from the Northern States, would, he conceived, bring about a peaceable solution of the pending difficulties, and an eventual reconstruction of the Union.
In the afternoon Mr. Richardson, of Hanover, made a good argument in favor of immediate secession.