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e in open rebellion against the Government, Virginia was also to be dragged into rebellion and civil war. He was not here as an apologist for Mr. Lincoln, but believed that he would not have dared to acknowledge the right of the secession of States. He next alluded to Mr. Goggin as a member of the Whig Convention which adopted a platform for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution — and he believed the gentleman from Halifax (Mr. Flournoy) stood there also. They backed up Mr. Fillmore, as he did, in enforcing the laws in Boston; but now when they were to be enforced on this side of the line, it was a very different thing. His people were a law-abiding people; devoted to the institution of slavery, because it was, as they and as he believed, the bulwark of Republican liberty. Yet they were not to be driven from the Union because one had been elevated to the Presidency, through our divisions, who was objectionable to them.--They had yet the Constitution to protect them