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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ns of Virginia from all authority on the part of the Federal Government, and co-operate with the Southern States. Mr. Speed, of Campbell, asked if it would be in order at this point to offer an amendment to the amendment offered by the gentlemto be in order, and an informal debate took place on Parliamentary law, between Messrs, Wise, Conrad, and Clemens. Mr. Speed then offered his amendment to the amendment, by adding after the word "States," the words "and not seek to accumulate wdid not mean to countenance anything like the use of force against the seceded States. The vote was first taken on Mr. Speed's amendment to the amendment, and it was rejected, by the following vote: Yeas--Messrs. Ambler, James Barbour, Blament was agreed to — yeas 133, nays 5--Messrs. Ambler, Berlin, Boggess, Harvie and Neblett voting in the negative. Mr. Speed, of Campbell, moved to further amend the resolution in the 7th line by striking out the word"preserved," and insert in