To Milroy From E. D. Townsend January 28 1874

              Journal of the Senate of Virginia
 
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Saturday, January 10th 1863
 
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	Mr. Armstrong offered the following preamble  
and joint resolutions, with underline the rules, lie over: 

 
	Whereas the state of Virginia, by a majority  
of more than Ninety thousand of the legal voters  
thereof, determined that the welfare and happi- 
ness of her people required the withdrawal of said  
state from the Union of States known as the United  
States of America and the formation of another union  
with other states known as the Confederate States  
of America: and whereas the remaining states of  
the said United States because of this necessary  
and rightful actions, and for the purpose of sub- 
jugating the free people of Virginia to their unjust  
dominion, have waged against them a cruel and  
merciless war, in the prosecution of which they have  
devastated our territory, ravaged our coasts, burned  
the dwellings, destroyed the property, carried away  
the slaves of our citizens, maltreated and insulted  
our females, in some instances murdered, and in  
many arrested and imprisoned in loathsome and  
unhealthy dungeons, aged and peaceable citizens,  
now combatants, and have recently called upon  
our slaves to rise in insurrection against us; and