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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The dismemberment of Virginia. (search)
the Constitutional Union formed by the fathers would be lost forever. Mr. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, said that if Mr. Carlile's argument had been addressed to the Committee on Territories, of which they were both members, he would never have assented to the admission of West Virginia. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, thought it in every point of view inopportune to attempt to force Western Virginia at that time as a separate State into the Union, and trusted that the bill might not pass. Mr. Willey, Mr. Carlile's colleague under the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, while advocating the bill, stated that he did not believe, much as he regretted to have to say it, that a single county east of the Blue Ridge would acknowledge the authority of the Wheeling government if the United States soldiers were withdrawn. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, did not believe that it was ever contemplated by the Constitution that less than one-fourth of the people constituting a State should give
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Varnell's Station, Those who fell at, 224. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 189. Virginia, Secession of, 40; munificense of, 53; despondent of; 61. Virginia or Merrimac, The, 216. Wade, Col. W. B., 222. Walker, Maj., John, 157. Walshe, Capt. B. T., 377. Washington, Gen., entertained at White Hall, S. C , in 1791, 78. Wells, Capt. E. L., 235. West Virginia meeting at Clarksburg in 1861, Constitution of the Wheeling Convention adopted, 40; U. S Senators Williams, Trumbull, Willey and Powell, on admission of, 42, 43; Representatives Conway, Colfax, Crittenden, Dawes, Segar and Stevens, on, 44, 45; vote on, 48; government at Alexandria, 50; U. S. Supreme Court on validity of government of, 51. Wheeler, Gen., Joseph, 185, 219; visit of, to Richmond, 291; his tribute to Pelham, 296; physique of, 302. Whitfield, Surgeon, George, 5. Whiting, General W. H C., Address on by C. B. Denson, 129; his heroic death, 174. Whittle, William C., 315. Wickham, General W. C.,