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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening Session. (search)
ructing their Delegate to the State Convention to vote for an Ordinance of Secession. C. C. McRae, Esq., vigorously opposed their adoption, (which a correspondent says "caused a little confusion occasionally.")--The resolutions were carried in the affirmative, some dozen negative votes only having been given in. The resolves will be published. Our correspondent thinks that Mr. McRae made a good speech — as good as could be made, considering the side he was on; but that it was the wrong side, and could do no good.--He adds that the eyes of the people of Chesterfield are being opened to the importance of the secession issue — they are in favor of it, and that they "wish that, by some miraculous power, a light could shine on the members of the Convention like on Paul of old, and cause the scales to fall from their eyes, that they might see and perform their duty; for truly it may be said of a majority of them, 'they have kept the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope.