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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia State Convention. (search)
h its original lustre, undimmed and untarnished. [Applause.] We shall demand full and equal rights with New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and nothing more. We would scorn to ask more than would be conceded to the little States of Delaware and Rhode Island. Rhode Island! God bless her! a little State, but with a heart big enough for all. She was the first to repeal her Personal Liberty laws, and it is hoped that the others will follow her example. I repeat, that the responsibility resting Rhode Island! God bless her! a little State, but with a heart big enough for all. She was the first to repeal her Personal Liberty laws, and it is hoped that the others will follow her example. I repeat, that the responsibility resting upon this body is awful. I consented to be a candidate for a seat here with fear and trembling. The people will revise our action, and I trust that our measures will be brought to such a conclusion as that some of our sisters of the South, who, from what they believe to be just causes, have wandered from their orbit, may be brought back to this their older sister. I hope that even Massachusetts will remember the land whence Washington came to struggle for her liberties, and, awakened by our e