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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
his substitute for the same, providing for a convention independent of the Legislature and fresh from the people, separate polls to be opened for the election of the same on the next day of election — the fourth Thursday in March. Mr. Deane called for the reading of the minority report of the committee, and it was read, as also was the substitute for the original bill. Mr. Staples made some pungent and forceable remarks in support of the substitute as originally reported. Mr. Shacklefords opposed the whole Convention business; but he desired to bring the House to a test vote. He moved the indefinite postponement of the whole subject. Mr. Deane, one of the committee who made the minority report upon the inexpediency of a Convention, was heard in defence of that report. He apprehended that if Virginia called a Convention her example would be followed by three or four of the Confederate States, and by the time the delegates could be elected and called together in