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present under consideration. The following are the propositions: An Ordinance of the State of Virginia. Whereas, The State of Virginia has made every honorable effort to restore the friendState of Virginia has made every honorable effort to restore the friendly relations which should exist between the General Government and the several States of the Union, upon terms perfectly just to all, but deeming it unnecessary to refer to the causes of complaint wh and upon their posterity forever. 3. And without determining at this time whether the State of Virginia will unite herself with any other State or association of States in any common Government,are, or may then be, proper subjects for deliberation, ouching the future relations of the State of Virginia to any other Government or State. 4. And it is hereby ordained and declared by the peonumber under that age, who were not taxed; by which operation a large amount of property in Eastern Virginia, the section chiefly interested in slavery, escaped taxation, while the West, where there w
received by Mr. Wallace, on the 4th ult. We should like to hear Richmond speak, and all slaveholding Virginia to let its voice be heard. The same revolution which has carried the citadel of Unionism has swept over every portion of the State which is identified with the slavery institution. We have never doubted for one moment that the majority of the people of both parties, with few and inconsiderable exceptions, are true to the Southern cause, and to their Southern brethren — that they are candid, honest, and open to conviction, and only need to see the light to embrace it. As Petersburg has gone, so goes all Eastern Virginia, and, if our information of the movements of Northern squadrons be confirmed, the Border States will go out in a solid mass. The members of the Convention may disregard these manifestations of public sentiment, but let them pursue their own course. The people of Virginia will soon take this matter, in a lawful and constitutional manner, in their own hands.
House of Delegates. Saturday, March 16, 1861. The House was called to order at 11 o'clock, by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by Rev. George Pettigrew, of the Reformed Church. Senate Bills Passed.--Incorporating the Oxford Cotton and Woolen Company; incorporating the Insurance Company of the State of Virginia at Richmond; authorizing the sale of certain church property in the town of Moorfield, Hardy county; incorporating the Home Mining and Manufacturing Company; amending the act incorporating the Springfield and Deep Run Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company; Senate bill in relation to the devise made by Joel Osborne, to the Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire Railroad Company, were read three times, and on motion of Mr. Ball, passed — ayes 87, noes 16; Senate bill allowing compensation to P. A. & J. C. Fowlkes, for the arrest of three convicts,on motion of Mr. Crump, was taken up and passed — ayes 82, noes 24. Message from the Senate.--A message was received f