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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ehalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, an invitation is hereby extended to all such States, whether slaveholding or non slaveholding, as are willing to unite with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present unhappy controversies, in the spirit in which the Constitution was originally formed, and consistently with its principles, so as to afford to the people of the slaveholding States adequate guarantees for the security of their rights, to appoint Commissioners to meet on the 4th day of February next, in the city of Washington, similar Commissioners appointed by Virginia, to consider, and, if practicable, agree upon some suitable adjustment. Resolved, That five Commissioners be appointed by the General Assembly, whose duty it shall be to repair to the city of Washington, on the day designated in the foregoing resolution, to meet such Commissioners as may be appointed by any of the States, in accordance with the foregoing invitation. Resolved, That if said Commission
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
into her custody, to restore them intact, in the event of a peaceful solution of the present difficulties, or account for them in an equitable division of the public property.--The Joint Committee on State and Federal Relations presented a report, in which they say that unless the present difficulties are adjusted a dissolution of the Union is inevitable. They extend an invitation to all States desirous of preserving the public peace to appoint Commissioners to meet at Washington, D. C., February 4th, to consider and resolve on some plan for an equitable adjustment. It provides for the selection of five Commissioners on the part of this State, and directs that they shall submit the plan to Congress for ratification, and send the same also to the Virginia Convention and General Assembly.--The report favors the propositions embraced in Hon. J. J. Crittenden's resolutions, introduced in the United States Senate, as containing the basis of an equitable adjustment. It was ordered to be p