The two-day First Wheeling (Virginia) Convention concludes: Delegates from 27 northwestern Virginia counties denounce the Commonwealth’s Ordinance of Secession as unlawful; it claims to be the legitimate government of Virginia; and declares its loyalty to the compulsory Union.
[restored 3/19/2022]
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 165.
Wheeling Convention – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_Convention
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