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ithout paying a just tribute to the vigor and perseverance of his repeated efforts to ward off from his country the direful calamity of disunion and civil war. Well did he merit the almost unanimous vote of the Virginia Convention, on the 11th March, tendering him the thanks of the people of Virginia for his recent able, zealous, and patriotic efforts in the Senate of the United States, to bring about ajust and honorable adjustment of our national difficulties. National Intelligencer, March 14, 1861. This vote, we may remark, was far from being complimentary to the conduct of a majority of their own commissioners (Messrs. Tyler, Brockenbrough, and Seddon) in the Peace Convention. In the House of Representatives, the amendment proposed by the Convention was treated with Still less respect than it had been by the Senate. Con. Globe, pp. 1331, 1332, 1333. The Speaker was refused leave even to present it. House Journal, pp. 446, 448, 449. Every effort made for this purpose was