Speech of John C. Rutherfoord, of Goochland, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, 21 February, 1860, in Favor of the Proposed Conference of Southern States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Speech of John C. Rutherfoord, of Goochland, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, 21 February, 1860, in Favor of the Proposed Conference of Southern StatesIn this first American Congress, which, we are told, would not have met if it had not been for the warm-heartedness of South Carolina, we learn from the same northern testi mony that her Rutledge, and Gadsden, and Lynch, were the first at the place of meeting that no colony was better represented, that her delegation gave a chief to two of the three great committees, and in all that was well done her mind visibly appeared, And what was the result of this first Congress or Conference in which South Carolina played so distinguished a' part That the Colonies became, as it was expressed in the papers signed by the delegates, a bundle of sticks, which could neither be bent nor bro ken and the proceedings of the Congress were everywhere approved and adopted, so that even in New Jersey, where the Assembly had at first unanimously declined the invita tion of Massachusetts, a distinguished delegate to the Con gress, who refused to sign the proceedings, was disavowed by his constituents.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.