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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
there are unspeakable evils in the dissolution of the Union, and that there are inestimable blessings in its preservation. I do not see how these convictions are to make themselves effectually manifest; but neither do I see it to be impossible that they should 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