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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
adopt such measures as will afford to the people of the slaveholding-States full constitutional assurance of their safety in continuing any further association with them under a common Government. Resolved, That this Convention will, on the day after the adoption of these resolutions, appoint three Commissioners to proceed to Montgomery and confer with the authorities of the Confederate States in reference to the grave emergency in our public affairs. Personal Explanation. Mr. Johnson, of Richmond, asked the indulgence of the Convention while he made a brief personal explanation. He announced the fact [of which few in the Convention, probably, were aware] that reports had been circulated among his constituents charging him with having made a Black Republican and coercion speech in that body. He fully vindicated himself from the charges, and pronounced them slanderous and untrue. order of the day. The Convention proceeded to the consideration of the pending
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
General Assembly of Virginia.[Extra session.]Senate. Saturday, March 9, 1861. The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock, Mr. Johnson in the chair, and opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Moorman, of the Methodist Church. The resolution passed by the House on Friday, for the relief of the Sheriffs of the Commonwealth, having been reported, Mr. Wickham proposed the following amendment, which was adopted: "In any settlement with Sheriffs against whom judgments have been rendered for the taxes of 1860, the said Auditor shall remit all damages except so much only as may be necessary to pay expenses of the collection of said judgments, provided that said taxes are paid prior to the 1st day of April next." At the suggestion of Mr. Pate, it was further amended so as to provide that Sheriffs shall have the number of days now allowed them for traveling, after the 1st of April, to make such payments. The resolution as amended, was adopted by a vote of ayes 29, n
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The Convention. The Committee on Federal Relations made a partial report on Saturday, and three minority reports were submitted--one by Mr.Wise, one by Messrs. Harvie, Montague and Williams, and one by Mr. James Barhour.--They will be found in the regular proceedings. It is understood that the majority report is approved by sixteen of the twenty one members of the Committee. Mr. Ambler concluded his speech on the pending instruction resolutions, after which they were laid on the table. Mr. Marye submitted a series of resolutions adopted by the citizens of Fredericksburg, accompanying them with some effective remarks. Mr. Johnson, of Richmond, made a speech, refuting some reports alleged to have been circulated to his prejudice among his constituents. It is probable that the grand conflict on the Committee's reports will commence to-day.
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The Senate Committees. --The Standing Committees of the U. S. Senate have been appointed. The following is a list of the more important: Foreign Relations.--Messrs. Sumner, Chairman; Collamer, Doolittle, Harris, Douglas, Polk, and Breckinridge. Finance.--Messrs. Fessenden, Chairman; Simmons, Wade, Howe, Hunter, Pearce, and Bright. Commerce.--Messrs. Chandler, Chairman; King, Morrill, Wilson, Clingman, Saulsbury, and Johnson. Militia.--Messrs. Wilson, Chairman; King, Baker, Lane, Rice, Latham, and Breckinridge. Naval Affairs.--Messrs. Hale, Chairman; Grimes, Foot, Cowan, Thomson, Nicholson, and Kennedy. Judiciary.--Messrs. Trumbull, Chairman; Foster, Ten Eyek, Cowan; Bayard, Powell, and Clingman.