The General Assembly.
The General Assembly of
Virginia is steadily marching onward in the course which, we trust, will bring about a united South, prevent war, secure a peaceable adjustment of difficulties, and possibly reconstruct the
Confederacy.
The decided resolutions against the coercion of a seceding State by the
General Government, which passed the House of Delegates on Monday, with five dissenting voices, were passed by the Senate yesterday, with only one vote in the negative.
Of course, it matters not about the one vote.
It's of no consequence.
Virginia has taken her position, and she has done it with unanimity and firmness, and she will not shrink from it. If the legislators had not taken it, the people would have taken it for themselves.
If the Legislature had not reflected the public sentiment, it could not have restrained the people.
They would have acted on their own motion and upon their own sentiments.
We trust, now, the General Assembly will pass promptly a bill calling a Convention at an early day. The counties have, with great unanimity, favored a Convention, and if it be called at once, it will very much relieve the public mind.