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dle of February of '61; and he laid great stress on the thoroughly Union sentiment that pervaded it during its earlier sessions. If a vote on the question had been taken any time during the month preceding the attack on Fort Sumter, three-fourths at least of all the voices would have been against the ordinance. When that event took place the Secession mercury on the instant leaped up in the barometer. The Union party in the Convention, however, still struggled on. They sent delegates to Washington — begging, imploring some assuring word, some basis of hope, some promise which they could present to their people. "And Mr. S., I am bound to tell you we got discouragement rather than encouragement." Unable thus to get any rallying point the Union party was overslaughed by the Disunionists, and the secession was voted by a large majority, Mr. Janney, with some others, holding out to the last. The Convention dissolved, the members went home, the popular vote — without whose ratifica