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ia, the General Assembly of which state, on January 19, 1861, adopted a preamble and resolutions, deprecating disunion and inviting all such states as were willing to unite in an earnest endeavor to avert it by an adjustment of the then existing controversies to appoint commissioners to meet in Washington on February 4 to consider, and, if practicable, agree upon some suitable adjustment.
Ex-President John Tyler, along with William C. Rives, John W. Brockenbrugh, George W. Summers, and James A. Seddon—five of the most distinguished citizens of the state—were appointed to represent Virginia in the proposed conference.
If they could agree with the commissioners of other states upon any plan of settlement requiring amendments to the federal Constitution, they were instructed to communicate them to Congress, with a view to their submission to the several states for ratification.
The border states in general promptly acceded to this proposition of Virginia, and others followed, so tha
against states, 150.
Allegiance divided, 154-55.
Peaceful remedy, 156.
Moral obligations, 156-57.
Caucus of Southern senators, 172, 178; resolutions, 175.
Seizure of forts and arsenals, 173-75.
Remarks by Davis on resigning from Senate, 189-192.
Remarks of Northern journals on seces-sion and coercion, 218-21.
Not insurrection but a right, 282.
Sectional rivalry, 24.
Growth, 26-29, 36, 42, 48, 71.
Culmination, 52-53, 58-59.
Retrospect, 66-67.
Safeguards against, 158-59.
Seddon, James A. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214.
Semmes, Captain, 408. Emissary to North to secure arms for Con-federacy, 270-71.
Seward, W. H., 58, 59. Extract from dispatch to Dayton, 226-27.
Relations with Confederate commission, 230-238.
Instructions to Dallas, 281-82.
Seymour, Horatio, 220.
Sharkey, William L., 198.
Sherman, Roger, 123.
Shiloh, Battle of, 409.
Sickles, General, 390, 394.
Singleton, O. R., 51-52.
Slavery. Status at adoption of Federal Const