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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
of the resolution. He spoke of the wrongs inflicted on the South, and alluded to the fact that the whole North were now arming for her further subjugation. Mr. Myers, called for the reading of the resolution, and remarked that he would vote against laying it on the table, and in favor of its adoption. On Saturday last he voty identified upon every question with the South. Suppose a portion of that South should conceive it to their interest to re-open the slave trade. A trade which Mr. Myers declared he abhorred and detested morally; and he asked whether any man in his senses was prepared to declare that the interests of Virginia could be promoted by Gentlemen in private conversation informed him, that such was not intended by the resolution of last Saturday. Then why not say so in the resolution itself? Mr. Myers was opposed to voting for generalities, when he might afterwards be told that his vote covered a specific proposition to which he never would have given his sanc