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By the Governor of Virginia --A Proclamation.--Whereas a vacancy has occurred in the Convention of Virginia by the resignation of George W. Summers, a member thereof for the county of Kanawha, therefore the Sheriff of said county is hereby required to hold an election at the several places of voting prescribed by law, in said county, on Monday, the 19th day of June next, for a member of the Convention for said county, to supply the vacancy aforesaid. Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 29th day of May, 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. my 30--d&cw3t
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. (search)
ters, James Bu ley, Famuel McD. Moore, Benj. W. Byrae, Hugh M. Nelson, John S. Carlile, Logan Osborn, John A. Carter, Spicer Patrick, Sherrard Chamans, Edmand Pendleton, C. B. Conrad, George er R. Y. Conrad, Samuel Price, James H. Cou h, David Pugh, W. H. B. Cus John D. Sharp, Marshall M. Dent, Thomas Sittington, William H. Dalany, Barwell S lock, J Earley, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Colbert G. Fugate, Cha ma J. Stuart, Peyton Gravely, George W. Summers, Algern Gray, Campbell Tar Ephraim B. Hall, William White, Allen C. Hammond, Williams C. Wickham, Alph Haymond, Walt T. Whey--55. James W. Hoge, At fifteen minutes past four o'clock, the President (Mr. Montague in the chair) announced the result of the vote, and declared the passage of the ordinance. Subsequently, the following members changed their votes from the negative to the affirmative: William C. Wickham, George Baylor, Alpheu. F. Haymo
foreign enemy, and that they regard the occupancy of Harper's Ferry by the Federal Government as an act of aggression upon Southern rights and a standing menace to the people of Virginia." Appointment of Commissioners for Consultation.--Mr. Patterson offered the following resolutions, which, after being read, were, on motion, referred to the Committee on Federal Relations: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Delegates. That Ro. M. T. Hunter, Wm. C. Rives, John J. Alien, and Geo. W. Summers, be and are hereby appointed Commissioners to open a correspondence with the Governments of all the States, to ascertain on what terms. If upon any, the present Union can be preserved; and if it cannot, then upon what terms and with what States a new Confederacy can be formed, which will secure to the people of Virginia the full enjoyment of all their rights; and that they be required to report the result of their proceedings to the Convention, to assemble on the 13th of February next.
in connection with the University of Virginia. A petition was presented from Appomattox County Court, for authority to borrow money to purchase arms; also, the resolves of a meeting in Wythe county, in which they say that they regard the occupancy of Harper's Ferry by the Federal Government as an act of aggression upon Southern rights and a standing menace to the people of Virginia. A resolution was likewise offered for the appointment of R. M. T. Hunter, Wm. C. Rives, J. J. Allen and G. W. Summers as Commissioners on the part of Virginia to open a correspondence with the Governors of the several States, to ascertain upon what terms the Union can be preserved; and if it cannot be, with what States a new Confederacy can be formed that will secure to Virginia the full enjoyment of her rights. The resolution which requires the Commissioners to report to the Convention, to sit here on the 13th of February, was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. A petition was presented,
ly formed, and consistently with its principles, so as to afford to the people of the slaveholding States adequate guarantees for the security of their rights, to appoint Commissioners to meet — on the fourth day of February next in the city of Washington — similar Commissioners appointed by Virginia. to consider, and, if practicable, agree upon some suitable plan of adjustment. Resolved, That Ex-President Tyler, William C. Rives, Judge John W. Brockenbrough, James A. Seddon, and George W. Summers be appointed Commissioners whose duty it shall be to repair to the city of Washington, on the day designated in the foregoing resolution to meet such Commissioners as may be appointed by any of the said States, in accordance with the foregoing invitation. Resolved, That if said Commissioners, after conference, shall agree upon any plan of adjustment requiring amendments of the Federal Constitution for the further security of the rights of the people of the slaveholding States, the
rs in February last as a member of the Virginia Convention. His course in that body and in the Peace Congress convened at Washington in the same month, is familiar to the people of the South. It was marked by the same fidelity to the creed of State-Rights and State sovereignty which had signalized his previous career, and by that brilliancy of intellect which great occasions seemed always to evoke from him. His celebrated speech in answer to, and in exposure and annihilation of, George W. Summers, was probably one of the ablest of his life, as it was one of the most powerful of the many which the present times have called forth. His election to Congress last November in the district embracing the Capital of the Confederacy, over competitors of conceded talents and popularity, attested the high appreciation in which the people held his last services to his country. He died last Saturday morning, at his rooms in the Ballard House. He had been suddenly stricken down by dise
Visitors to the University of Virginia. --To supply the vacancy occasioned by the non-attendance for more than one year of George W. Summers, one of the Board of Visitors to the University of Virginia, and by the acceptance of office under the Confederate States Government of Roger A. Pryor and P. Henry Aylett, the Governor yesterday appointed in their stead as visitors Allen T. Caperton, of Monroe; J. Randolph Tucker, of Richmond, and Douglass H Gordon, of Fredericksburg. The board will hold a meeting on the 15th of September. The next session of the University bids fair to be a prosperous one.
, old Newton, the editor of the Black Republican paper at Charleston, Kanawha. A Yankee by birth, education, and instinct, the only one of the Union tribe in that vicinity that was not polite to Mr. Price during his imprisonment at Charleston. Summers and his whole pack now pretend to think the Yankees won't do. Dr. Patrick, a Northern man also by birth and education, and instinct, but belonging to the better species of that nation, told Gen. Williams that the North had started this war he Constitution and destroyed the Union, and that they are now prosecuting the war to free the negroes and make the South pay the expenses of the war, and he hoped to God that they might never come back to Kanawha.--Gen. Williams asked what George W. Summers's position was? Dr. Patrick replied, "His views and mine are exactly the same." Our Government has stores enough not far from, Charleston, including the salt, to load 250 wagons. The quantity of iron, lead, and cannon balls, seem to
d Lieutenant Governor by a handsome majority. Mr. P., who is a plain, sincere gentleman, after the pattern of men of other days is a prominent member of the Western Virginia bar. He is moderate yet firm, and though cautious and prudent, decided in his views. He was a strong Union man until the State determined to secede, and then gave himself entirely to her cause. He represented a district in the Convention which was strongly opposed to secession, and had he followed the example of George W. Summers he might have carried a large number of his constituents away from their true allegiance. But he acted the part of a true patriot, and not only told his people what their duty was, but led the way by his own example, and has been active in the measures for military defence in his own part of the State. He was in Lewisburg when the first Yankee force entered the place. The Federal commander proclaimed to the people that they were citizens of the United States and owed allegiance to t
e Georgia is Capt. Wm. L. Maury, not Com. M. F. Maury, who is now in England. Capt. Maury is a relative of the distinguished navigator, and has relatives in Richmond. There will be two one-armed men in the next Congress as representatives from Georgia--Hon. Mark Blanford from the 3d, and Capt. G. N. Lester from the 8th district. Private letters received in Savannah announce that the steamer Lamar, from Savannah, was recently captured by the enemy on her way to Nassau. Judge Geo. W. Summers, of Kanawha, once an honored politician in Virginia, is now a candidate for the Yankee Congress from Western Virginia. The late Dr. Schuman, of Salem, N. C., bequeathed $80,000 to the Foreign Missions of the Moravian Church. The Virginia Hotel, in Staunton, Va., was sold on Wednesday last to Capt. Booton, of Page county, Va., for $105,000. In Rockingham county, Va., four men were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary at Richmond. A negro girl, aged 19 years,
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