The Constitutional Convention

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The Constitutional Convention
John Alexander Jameson
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The official proceedings culminating in the establishment of this new State, were as follows : On the 17th of April, 1861, a body of men, assembled by the legislature of Virginia, on the 13th of February preceding, and styling themselves " the Convention of Virginia, " passed a pre tended ordinance of secession from the United States, and, so far as they had power to do so, carried the State, as a political organization, out of the Union. The officers of the State, with great unanimity, joined
...the rebel cause, carrying with them the public funds, the archives of the State, and such of the national 170 WEST VIRGINIA CONVENTION OF 1861.
forts and arsenals within the limits of Virginia, as they had the physical ability to seize and maintain. The insurgents not act ually withdrawing from the State, the situation was as follows : There was the State of Virginia, considered territorially as a portion of the national domain ; there were the rebel forces, gov ernment, and population in hostile possession of that part of the State occupied by their camps (for they could be recognized by the United States and its adherents as only temporarily en camped upon a portion of the territory of the Union) ; and there were the loyal Virginians settled, in an unorganized con dition, upon the residue.


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