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County meeting.

--A meeting was held at Spotsylvania Court-House, Va., Tuesday, and resolutions passed to the effect--1st. That an attempt to collect the revenue, retake or reinforce the forts, will be such coercion as Virginia is pledged not to allow. 2d. That the union of the South is the safety of the South, and that Virginia should withdraw at once from the United States and join the Confederate States; and 3d. That the delegate from this county be requested to conform his action to the sentiments of the meeting, as expressed in these resolutions. A substitute to the second resolution was offered, that Virginia lay down an ultimatum, and give the people of the Northern States reasonable time to vote upon it, and if they fail or refuse to agree to it, then that the State shall secede. This was lost by a vote of 79 to 101, and then the original resolutions were adopted without objection.

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