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Joint Resolution concerning the position of Virginia in the event of the Dissolution of the Union. 1861 337 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0780 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. No. 1.-Resolutions upon the subject-of the Coercion of a State. Adopted January 8,1861. 1. Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, that the Union 11ow Union being formed by the assent of the sovereign states respectively, and fored being consistent only with freedom and the republican institutions guaranteed to each, cannot and ought not to be maintained by force. 2. That the government of the Union has no power to declare or No power to .. make or declare make war against any of the states which have been its constituent coar members. 3. Resolved, that wheni any one or more of the states has deter- state will 4alet mined, or shall determine, under existing circumstances, to withdraw coercion from the Union, we arc unalterably opposed to any attempt on the part of the federal government to coerce the same into reunion or submission, and that we will resist the same by all the means in our power. No. 2.-Joint Resolution concerning the position of Virginia in the event of the Dissolution of the Union. Adopted Januory 21,1661. Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, that if all efforts to Position of reconcile the unhappy differences existing between the two sections Virginia of the country shall prove to be abortive, then, in the opinion of the general assembly, every consideration of honor and interest demands that Virginia shall unite her destiny with the slaveholding states of the south. No. 3-Jolnt Resotilons inviting the other States to send Commissioners to meet Commissioners on the part of Virginia, and providing for the appointment of the same. Adopted January 19,1861. Whereas it is tite deliberate opinion of the general assembly of Preamble Virginia, that unless the unhappy controversy, which now divides 22

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