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Preston (search for this): article 1
pt in that direction ought to be resisted by Virginia, and favoring secession. Mr. Forres, of Rockingham, presented a series of reunion resolutions from that county. Referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Military Defences. Mr. Richardson, of Hanover, moved that the Convention take up his resolution on the military strength of the State--a like motion having been lost yesterday for want of a full vote. Mr. Richardson demanded the yeas and nays. Mr.Brown, of Preston, opposed the taking up of the resolution. He thought the agitation of any subjects foreign to the purposes of the Convention would have a tendency to depreciate State stock. The motion to take up was lost — ayes 35, noes 46. Order of the day. The Convention then resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Southall, of Albemarle, in the Chair,) and proceeded to the consideration of the reports from the Committee on Federal Relations. The Chairman said the strict par
1776 AD (search for this): article 1
ions of constitutional right. The principle that any people have a right to reform, alter or abolish any form of their Government, made for their benefit, was the fundamental principle of Republican liberty. The affirmation here is simply that the people of the several States may, for just causes, withdraw from their association with the Federal Government. If gentlemen were disposed to deny this principle on this floor, it was his opinion that they had sadly degenerated since the days of 1776. Unless it could be shown that the government of the people of a State had been destroyed, or merged in some other form of government, they still possessed this right. If they had a right to change their form of State government, they also had a right to change their form of Federal government.--He did not regard it as a revolutionary right. He maintained that the proposition was sound and impregnable, established during the American Revolution, leaving the people free to change their forms
March 15th, 1861 AD (search for this): article 1
Virginia State Convention.twenty-sixth day. Friday, March 15, 1861. The Convention was called to order at 12 o'clock. Prayer by the Rev. Geo. W. Nolley, of the M. E. Church. Voice of the people. Mr. Fisher, of Northampton, presented a series of resolutions adopted by the citizens of his county, disapproving of the inaction of the Convention, repudiating the Peace Conference propositions, and favoring immediate secession, &c. Mr. Fisher, in commenting on the resolutions, alluded to the change of feeling among the Union men of his county, as one of the cheering signs that the popular tide was setting in the right direction. The resolutions were referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Mr. Goode, of Mecklenburg, presented a series of resolutions adopted by the citizens of that county, repudiating the result of the Peace Conference, and declaring it the duty of Virginia at once to withdraw from the Union, and place herself by the side of her Southe
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