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From the Northwest.[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 21st, 1861. Union sentiments are rapidly dying away all over this portion of Northwestern Virginia, and the people are becoming one in sympathy, one in desire, and one in heart, with a rapidity which is as astonishing as it is gratifying. I am not writing for sensation purposes, as I have certainly no desire to deceive any one. I am speaking facts, as I know them to exist, and as I have lh two or three, and more if found necessary. I see by the public papers that Major Geo. W. Hansbrough, of this town, and Capt. John A. Robinson, of Fetterman, are each engaged in raising a company. Major Hansbrough came to this county from Eastern Virginia nearly six years ago. He possesses a fine classical education, (a graduate of the Virginia University,) and is a lawyer of ability and promise. He is a whole-souled Virginia, full of patriotism, full of fire and full of courage. For severa
Military power of Virginia. The State of Virginia can bring into the field at least a hundred thousand as brave men as there are in the world, accustomed from their infancy to the use of arms, and ready and willing to lay down their lives in defence of their homes.
Cheering news from the Northwest. --We publish to-day communications from Northwestern Virginia, showing that the people of that section are coming up gallantly to the defence of Virginia, in spite of the misrepresentations of such tory journals as the Wheeling Intelligencer. The writer is a gentleman in whose assurance we have implicit faith.
t. Col. and Act'g Quartermaster Gen'l. This arrangement must be carried out. John Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Mr. Grattan offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the authorities of the State of Virginia be authorized to connect the railroads coming into the city, or any of them, by laying tracks through the streets of the city; said tracks to be used only for the purposes of the State of Virginia or of the Confederated States during the waJohn Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Mr. Grattan offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the authorities of the State of Virginia be authorized to connect the railroads coming into the city, or any of them, by laying tracks through the streets of the city; said tracks to be used only for the purposes of the State of Virginia or of the Confederated States during the war, and to be removed when no longer required for these purposes. Adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861. (search)
ce "to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution;" and by the sche To repeal the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution. The people ments to said Constitution — are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the Union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the StState of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. And they do further declare that the said Constitunce to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under the said Constitution," adopted in