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offer a resolution instructing that body to appropriate money and devise a plan. He hoped the Convention would not commit itself to any half-way measures. Mr. Leake, of Goochland, asked what was the question before the Convention? The President replied that the resolution of the gentleman from Chesterfield was under consideration. Mr. Leake proposed to amend the resolution by striking out all after the word "Resolved," and inserting the following: Resolved, That the Committee on Federal Relations be instructed to bring in an ordinance setting forth the following facts and determinations of Virginia, in connection with the present threatield was an instruction to the Committee. He would ask if the amendment was also an instruction. The President said it was, and was therefore in order. Mr. Leake then addressed the Convention at considerable length in support of his amendment; but the time occupied in copying the document rendered it impossible for the re