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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of the glorious emblem of Southern independence, the flag of the late U. States was lowered for the last time. That which superceded it had all the affection and reverence it once possessed in the breasts of the people. A band of music was in attendance and the thousands present jubilant. In obedience to repeated and enthusiastic calls, addresses were delivered on the ground by B. B. Douglass, Esq., of the State Senate; Wm. F. Gordon, of Albemarle; Wm. B. Newton, Delegate from Hanover; Chas. Irving, and Thos. T. Cropper, of this city, whose stirring appeals were listened to with eager interest. After the ceremonies at the ground were concluded, the people assembled with music and cheers in front of the Exchange Hotel, where they were addressed in eloquent terms by Col. Isbell, Senator from Jefferson county. Proceeding thence to the Spotswood House, the people were again addressed most acceptably, in the Southern-Rights view, by Hon. Jeremiah Morton, and Messrs. Preston, Miers
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
uld enable the people of the State to free themselves from Black Republican control, and to exercise their independent and sovereign powers by an immediate vote, we should consider it a clear abandonment of the rights of the people, and a refusal by the members of the Convention to discharge duties they accepted upon assuming their representative trusts; that the delegate to the Convention, already fully heretofore instructed by the county of Cumberland, be instructed to vote for an Ordinance of immediate Secession, and to aid, without the delaying process of any Border Conference, in taking immediate steps to unite Virginia with her sister States of the Southern Confederacy. After the vote was taken, Mr. Chas. Irving, being called on, addressed the meeting in an eloquent manner in favor of immediate secession, and Gen. Scott made a brief reply. Thus, county after county of the Old Dominion is gravitating to the true centre of its sympathies and interests in the Southern Union.