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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
General Assembly of Virginia. Tuesday, January 20th, 1863. Senate.--The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Montague, and opened with prayer by Rev. Chas. H. Read, of the Presbyterian Church. A communication from the Governor was presented, enclosing a notice issued by an Abolition General called Milroy, purporting to command at Winchester, in this State, issued on the 5th of January, relative to the execution of the emancipation proclamation of Lincoln. The strictures of the Governor on the paper of Milroy, and the proclamation which called if forth, were just and severe. Five hundred copies of the respective documents were ordered to be struck off for the use of the Senate, and the same was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Milroy's notice reads as follows: Freedom to slaves. Whereas the President of the United States, on the first day of the present month, issued his proclamation declaring "that all persons hel