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considered it utterly inconsistent with his views of personal propriety and public duty to put Virginia in the position of making any new advances for peace, after the failure of what her Representatives had declared to the world was her final effort. As he saw no indication from the North of any movement for restoration, he was bound to regard the permanent dissolution of this Union as inevitable, and would act accordingly. He implored the House not to delay the bill. Mr. Keen, of Pittsylvania, said he believed it was upon his motion this bill was taken up upon its final passage before this House. He should vote for the bill, and against every motion that looked to its defeat, but not for the reasons assigned by the gentlemen from Culpeper or Monroe. As to the question of East and West, which gentlemen had thought proper to introduce, he had only to say, he entered his protest against it. When he came to this body, he came here as a representative of his people, (and he thoug