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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
onsider an independent government......November, 1785 James Rumsey moves a boat by steam on the Potomac......March, 1786 Lynchburg, on the James River, laid out......1786 Kentucky favors separation at a convention held at Danville....... Sept. 7, 1787 Convention at Richmond on the federal Constitution......June 2, 1788 Patrick Henry, James Monroe, George Mason, etc., oppose it; James Madison, Edmund Pendleton, John Marshall, etc., advocate it. It is ratified, 89 to 79......June 25, 1788 Virginia cedes 40 square miles south of the Potomac to the United States for a federal district......1790 [This land was restored to Virginia by Congress in July, 1846.] Government armory and manufactory located at Harper's Ferry ......March 4, 1798 Patrick Henry dies......June 6, 1799 George Washington dies ......Dec. 14, 1799 Insurrection of the negroes under one Gabriel, slave of a planter near Richmond......1800 John Marshall, of Virginia, appointed chief-justice
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 245 (search)
the Congress the Constitution which had been thus framed, in his letter of the 17th of September, 1787, uses this most remarkable and significant language: It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. This Constitution was not submitted to the States for ratification, but to the people of the several States in Conventions assembled. On the 25th of June, 1788, the Convention of Virginia, by their ordinance assenting to and ratifying that Constitution, declared and made known: That the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will. We still hold to the great political truths our fathers have taught us. Our National Govern
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will." Now, therefore, we the people of the State of Virginia, conscious of the right, and hoping under God to maintain it, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the Ordinance adopted by us, in Convention, on the 25th of June, 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repeated, rescinded and abrogated. We do further declare and ordain that the Union now subsisting between the State of Virginia and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exer
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Judge Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, Va. (search)
e never entertained a doubt with regard to it. When in June, 1776, our State threw off the English yoke, and declared herself a free and independent State, she at once became invested with all the rights of sovereignty.--She has never, so far as I can discover, at any time diverted herself of any of these rights. He people are now, as they were in 1776, and from that period have always been, a separate people, with every right that belongs to a free and independent nation. When on the 25th of June, 1788, she became a member of the Federal Union, she in no proper sense surrendered or lost any portion of her sovereignty. Her accession to the Union was simply an expression of the will of her people, in the exercise of their sovereignty, that certain governmental potters should be administered through the Government at Washington, whilst the residue were to be administered by the Government at Richmond. Not withstanding those grants of powers, it was her indubitable, unalienable and i