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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
ssachusetts, was equally decided in his opposition to the scheme. So far as I know, he said, I do not believe there is a single person representing any portion of that part of Virginia which is left who ever consented to the erection and admission of this new State. Not one. And again. It is trifling with the spirit of the Constitution to say that any portion of the State of Virginia which is left has consented in any way, in any form and substance to the dismemberment of the State. Mr. Segar, from the Norfolk district, in Virginia, protested earnestly against the passage of the bill. I must say, he said, that according to my judgment the legal argument is altogether against the admission of the new State. Of the forty-eight counties of which it was to be composed, eleven had never, he declared, had even the semblance of representation. It would be found that there was not only not a majority of the people, but a singularly small proportion of them that voted for the new S
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ia, Secession of, 40; munificense of, 53; despondent of; 61. Virginia or Merrimac, The, 216. Wade, Col. W. B., 222. Walker, Maj., John, 157. Walshe, Capt. B. T., 377. Washington, Gen., entertained at White Hall, S. C , in 1791, 78. Wells, Capt. E. L., 235. West Virginia meeting at Clarksburg in 1861, Constitution of the Wheeling Convention adopted, 40; U. S Senators Williams, Trumbull, Willey and Powell, on admission of, 42, 43; Representatives Conway, Colfax, Crittenden, Dawes, Segar and Stevens, on, 44, 45; vote on, 48; government at Alexandria, 50; U. S. Supreme Court on validity of government of, 51. Wheeler, Gen., Joseph, 185, 219; visit of, to Richmond, 291; his tribute to Pelham, 296; physique of, 302. Whitfield, Surgeon, George, 5. Whiting, General W. H C., Address on by C. B. Denson, 129; his heroic death, 174. Whittle, William C., 315. Wickham, General W. C., 242. Wilcox, Colonel J. J., Eulogies of, 3. Williams, Benjamin J , 333. Williams, Rev.