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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
obertson asked if the Convention could have adopted a Constitution distasteful to the people without referring it to them? Mr. B Ll said the Convention, once called, was sovereign in all its parts. if the Convention had adopted a Constitution and refused to have submitted it to the people, it would have been binding. The vote was taken and lost — yeas 16, nays 16--as follows: Yeas--Messrs Alderson, Brannon, Bruce, Coghill, Finney, Isbell, Johnson, Nash, Neeson. Newton, New n, Pate. Pennybacker, Quesenberry, Spitier, and Whitten--16. Yeas--Messrs. Armstrong, Bail, Branch, Carraway, Collier, Dickenson of Prince Edward, Early, Garnett, Hart, Logan, McKenney, Robertson, Thompson, Urquhart, Whittle, and Witey--16. Mr. Newman offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs it quire into the expediency of reorganizing the militia of the Commonwealth not subject to the Conscription act. Mr. Collier offered the following