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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
orsement of the Crittenden proposition. The question was then taken on the adoption of the amendment, and was decided in the negative. The question recurring on the passage of the resolution, Mr. Wise called for the yeas and nays; and the roll being called, the result of the vote was announced as follows: yeas 101, nays 16. So the resolution was adopted. Mr. Bolsseau, of Dinwiddie, was excused from voting. Mr. Hall, of Lancaster, stated that he had paired off with Mr. Mostague. Messrs.Johnson and Macfarland, of Richmond, voted in the affirmative, and Mr. Randolph in the negative. Population of Virginia. Mr. Clemmens, of Ohio, stated that on the application of several members, he had procured a statement from the Superintendent of the Census Bureau, giving the complete population of Virginia, by counties. It was, on motion, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. The document gives the following as the entire population of the Commonwea
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ouncing the Convention at Montgomery for pursuing a similar course. Mr. Carlile asked if he understood the gentleman as contending that the Constitution of the Southern Confederated States had been referred to the people, as in the case of the Federal Constitution? Mr. Montague.--It was substantially the same thing. Mr. Carlile said his information on the subject was that the Montgomery Convention refused to refer their Constitution to the people of the several States. Mr. Mostague replied that this was because the States had Conventions in session at the same time, representing them upon the subjects at issue, and hence it would have been nonsense to have referred it to the people. It amounted to the same thing. The speaker then proceeded to show that a State in her sovereign capacity as one of the constituents of the Federal Government, has a right to judge for herself as to the mode and measure of redress, and never merged her individuality and sovereignty
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal Accident. (search)
rthern State repeal its Personal Liberty laws, the people would not ratify such action. They had been brought up in hate of the South and her institutions, and everything that may be done will prove a deception and a fraud. He believed the time had come when the South should secede from the Confederacy. Gen. Chapman--I give you the following: "The Central Confederacy — A postscript to the Black Republican platform. We rejected the original — we scorn the supplement." Lieut. Gov. Mostague was called upon to respond. He said it was a strange sentiment for him to respond to. He believed that there was but one man in Virginia who could propose an abandonment of the Southern States in this crisis. [Loud cheers] In proceeding, the speaker expressed the utmost scorn at the idea of a Central Confederacy, and took the ground that Virginia was bound to take her stand by the side of her sister Southern States. The President then announced the next toast: "South Carol