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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
l our titheables are heavily taxed, and when the British forces are invading our borders, you refuse, after frequent appeals, to send any continental troops to our assistance. Exhausted in fighting the battles of the country on every field from Canada to Georgia, we warn you that unless assistance be speedily given, we shall withdraw our contingent, and fight by ourselves and for ourselves alone"--The Continental Congress could not resist this appeal, (which you will find in Rives' Life of Madison,) and accordingly sent down the Virginia soldiers and one Pennsylvania regiment, which last (the Pennsylvania regiment) refused to go a step farther than Philadelphia unless they received three months pay in advance, and in specie at that. It is on record that during the whole of the Revolutionary War, not one single New England company came south of the Potomac.--The New England troops enlisted for six months, and resigned before they could be of any service. The Virginia soldiers, b
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Florida Convention. Tallahassee, Fla.,Jan, 5 --Judge McGhee, of Madison, was elected permanent President of the Canvention. The morning session was consumed in perfecting the organization. At the afternoon session resolutions were offered declaring the right of Florida to secede; that there is cause for the exercise of that right, and that it is the duty of the State to prepare for it. A discussion resulted on the policy of the immediate passing of these resolutions, and they were finally made the special order for Monday--to which time the Convention adjourned.