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s been covered by one. We do not pretend to do more than give an idea of the tone and spirit which animated this able effort, and which was cordially responded to by the large and intelligent audience who heard it. Throughout, it was calm, yet decided; moderate, but firm; expressing in its spirit the determination of Virginia to ask nothing that is not right; to submit to nothing that is wrong. We have received from a friend the following notice of the address delivered by the Rev. James A. Duncan, pastor of the Broad Street Methodist Church: "I exaggerate nothing in saying that it was the wisest, most truly Christian-like, and profoundly eloquent and powerful discourse I have a most ever heard. A single sentence towards the conclusion set all the women to wrapping, and in a few minutes you might see the manly tear falling everywhere from young men and old mingled with a brimming flush of righteous resolution to do or die, 'if, in the providence of God occasion called