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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
ee.--Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, presented a petition of cavalry and other volunteer corps of Virginia, asking for the removal to this State of the remains of Gen. Harry Lee, of revolutionary memory. In doing so, he said he had the honor to present a petition, which, as well from the character of it as from the imposing auspices er which it came, demanded a brief remark. It asked, at the hands of the Legislature, the appropriation of a sum of money sufficient to remove the remains of Gen. Harry Lee, the famous "Light-Horse Harry," of the Revolution, from the soil of Georgia, where they repose, to that of his native State. It came from a vast multitude ory officers of Virginia, and volunteers of every kind — but chiefly, as is natural, of the cavalry corps of the State, as being that arm of the service on which General Lee conferred such distinguished lustre — a lustre that justly entitles him to be called the Murat of the South. He was aware he was not strictly in order in submi
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
an act of aggression upon Southern rights and a standing menace to the people of Virginia. A resolution was likewise offered for the appointment of R. M. T. Hunter, Wm. C. Rives, J. J. Allen and G. W. Summers as Commissioners on the part of Virginia to open a correspondence with the Governors of the several States, to ascertain upon what terms the Union can be preserved; and if it cannot be, with what States a new Confederacy can be formed that will secure to Virginia the full enjoyment of her rights. The resolution which requires the Commissioners to report to the Convention, to sit here on the 13th of February, was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. A petition was presented, asking the Legislature to appropriate means to remove the remains of Gen. Harry Lee from Georgia to his native State. A bill was reported to raise a million of dollars for the State, by the issue of Treasury notes. The Alabama Commissioners addressed both Houses of the Assembly at 1 o'clock.