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e was applied to his back." The hour of half-past 10 having arrived, Mr. Southall was called to the Chair, and the Convention went into Committee of the whole, for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee on Federal Relations. Mr. Ambler, of Louisa, availed himself of an opportunity to respond to the courteous disclaimer of the gentleman from Augusta, (Mr. Baldwin.) He was satisfied with his explanation, and met it in the spirit which had prompted it. Mr. Whitfield, of Isle of Wight, also made a personal explanation. He continued his remarks by alluding to the commencement of hostilities as good and sufficient cause why Virginia should at once be taken out of the Union. The substitute offered by Mr. Boyd, of Botetourt, for the 1st section of the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution, being in order, it was read, as follows: In all the present territory of the United States north of the parallel of 36 degrees and 30 minutes of N