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suggested a modification of the resolution so as to place the duty upon a select Committee. Mr. Tredway consented to the modification, and so changed his resolution as to make it read "resolved, that a Committee of five be raised with instructions to inquire," &c. Mr. Early could see no necessity for instituting such an inquiry. What difference could it make to this Convention whether the President, in the exercise of his undoubted authority, sent troops to Fortress Monroe and Harper's Ferry, to protect the public property, or not? his people were not alarmed, nor did he believe were the constituents of the gentleman from Pennsylvania alarmed. If the guns mounted on the parapet at Fortress Monroe were not for the purpose of coercing the people of Virginia, but for the protection of the public property, no one would be injured unless he foolishly thrust himself into the mouth of one of them. He fully appreciated the motive of the gentleman from Pennsylvania in offering the