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The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t direction ought to be resisted by Virginia, and favoring secession. Mr. Forres, of Rockingham, presented a series of reunion resolutions from that county. Referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Military Defences. Mr. Richardson, of Hanover, moved that the Convention take up his resolution on the military strength of the State--a like motion having been lost yesterday for want of a full vote. Mr. Richardson demanded the yeas and nays. Mr.Brown, of Preston, oppoMr. Richardson demanded the yeas and nays. Mr.Brown, of Preston, opposed the taking up of the resolution. He thought the agitation of any subjects foreign to the purposes of the Convention would have a tendency to depreciate State stock. The motion to take up was lost — ayes 35, noes 46. Order of the day. The Convention then resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Southall, of Albemarle, in the Chair,) and proceeded to the consideration of the reports from the Committee on Federal Relations. The Chairman said the strict parliamentary
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates, (search)
The Convention. A motion to take up Mr. Richardson's resolution of inquiry concerning the military strength of the Commonwealth, was yesterday voted down. Secession resolutions from the counties of Northampton, Mecklenburg, Pulaski, and Buckingham, were presented by the respective delegates, with suitable comments, and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The debate upon the committee's reports was opened by Mr. Conrad, of Frederick, in Committee of the Whole. He advocated the majority report, and made a strong argument in favor of the legal right of secession, but conceives it to be the duty of the Convention to make further efforts for the restoration of the Union. Mr. Randolph, of Richmond city, has the floor for to-day.