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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
ld do so." At a meeting in Fairfax county, Va., last week, resolutions were adopted in favor of calling a Convention, and advocating the right of secession. In the further proceedings of the meeting we find the following: A. B. Williams, Esq., offered the following, which was adopted: Whereas, the Governor of the State of Ohio, in direct conflict with the 4th article of the Constitution of the United States, has failed and refused to deliver two escaped criminals, (Brown and Meriam,) charged with treason, felony and other high crimes at the raid at Harper's Ferry, and who were rightfully demanded of him by the Governor of Virginia; and whereas, the Legislature of Virginia, at its last session, for want of time and the lateness of Gov. Letcher's message, failed to take any action in the premises, it now becomes the imperative duty of the Legislature, at its approaching session, to take such prompt and decisive action in the case as the honor and dignity of the Commonwea