Named Entity Results, Virginia (Virginia, United States)

Richmond shall be defended. We are glad this authorized flat has gone forth-authorized by the Confederate Government and the Legislature of the noble State of Virginia Richmond is the Capitol of the Southern Confederacy, Richmond is the metropolis of the State of Virginia. To loss Richmond is to loss Virginia, and to loss Virginia is to loss the key to the Southern Confederacy. --Virginians, Marylanders, ye who have rallied to her defence, would it not be better to fall in her streets thState of Virginia. To loss Richmond is to loss Virginia, and to loss Virginia is to loss the key to the Southern Confederacy. --Virginians, Marylanders, ye who have rallied to her defence, would it not be better to fall in her streets than to basely abandon them and view from the surrounding hills the humiliation of the capital of the Southern Confederacy? To die in her streets would be bliss to this, and to fall where tyrants strode, would be to consecrate the spot anew, and wash it of every stain. To defend Richmond there are men enough; the energy and will alone is wanted; the arms are within the grasp of every one; the plans should be known to the President and Cabinet. They are known; let them act.--Will they act?

By the Governor of Virginia. A Proclamation. --Information having been received that spied and dis persons are continually making their way through the frontier counties, this State, and through counties in the occasion of the enemy, giving them information detrimental to the Southern Confederacy and to the State of Virginia: Therefore, to prevent the agrees of such persons from our borders, I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby call upon, and exhort the Justices of the Peace in all such counties to organize active and efficient Committees of Safety, composed of persons who are exempt from military service, whose duty it shall be to scrutinize all strangers or suspicious characters, attempting to pass out of this State or out of the lines held by our troops, and ascertain, as far as possible, their business and intentions; and if, upon such scrutiny, they are found to be engaged in carrying on illicit communication with the enemy, by carryin