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ington, D. C. He arrived in the Capitol late in the evening of February 3rd and was present at the opening meeting of the Convention on the fourth.
It was always a source of great sorrow to rim that South Carolina, Miscissippi. Florida, A ha bam a, (ico:gia, Louisiana and Texas had ignored Virginia’s invitation to meet with them in an effort to save the Union and spare the country civil war.
He voted against secession. Memb-is of his family say he came home wth a heavy heart—believing as did a great majority of die convention, that war cpuld have been averted except for the emotional fear and hatred that had developed in North and South. This fear and hatred he believed had personal ambitions—unscrupulous
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