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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, Sitlington, Staples, Alex, H. H. Stuart, Chapman J. Stuart, White, and Willey--46. Nays--Messrs. Ambler, Armstrong, Blakey, Blow, Rouldin, Boyd. Branch, Bruce, Caperton, Chambliss, Conn, Robert Y. Conrad, James H. Cox. Richard H. Cox. Fisher, Flournoy, Garland, Holcombe, Hunton, Isbell. Marmaduke Johnson, Kent, Kilby, Leake, McComas, James B. Mallory, Marshall, Marye, Miller, Montague, Morrie, Morton, Neblett, Nelson, Parks, Preston. Price, Randolph, Richardson, Robert E. Scott, William C. Scott Seawell, Sheffey, Slaughter, Southall, Speed, Spurieck, Strange, Sutherlin, Tredway, Robert H. Turner, Franklin P. Turner, Whitfleid, Wilson, and Wysor--61. So the motion to lay on the table was carried in the negative. The resolutions were then referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Order of the day. The hour of 11 having arrived, the President announced that the Convention would go into Committee of the Whole, pursuant to order. Mr. Boyd, of Botetourt, ask
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
swell and Johnson, in North Carolina, and that within one week a strong force of regular troops will be sent to these points, to prevent their seizure by State authorities. It is further designed by the Government, acting under the advice of General Scott and General Totten, to garrison, arm, and provision the forts in Virginia and North Carolina for one year's siege. Norfolk has been determined upon as the Northern 'point d'appui,' or seaboard base for further movements against the Confederat. The basis for the land operations have not yet been determined upon; but it is confidently supposed that Washington will be the Northern point and St. Louis the Southwestern. Fort Pickens attracts the present attention of the Cabinet and General Scott, and a strong reinforcement will be sent there forthwith." Are the border States to be used as levers to coerce the Confederated States? Are they willing to submit their own necks to the impending yoke? Most earnestly we invoke the ad