Raynors HCA 2015-08
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"Resolutions Adopted by a Meeting of the People of Powhatan, held in the Court house on February Court Day, 1865." 1p. 6-1/4"x9-1/2" signed in type by Charles Carter Lee, as President and Wm. Pope Dabney as Secretary, it reads in part: "...We, the people of Powhatan, having heard the result of the efforts recently made by three of our distinguished citizens for peace, and seeing that our enemies will accept of no terms of settlement short of unconditional submission to fanaticism and tyranny: Resolved, that we pledge to our government and to our fellow-citizens of the Confederate States our undivided efforts to resist the yoke which the government of the United States seeks to impose upon us. Resolved, that we tender to our army our sincerest thanks for their gallantry in the field, and for the noble spirit they have shown in their resolutions recently passed. Resolved, that we pledge 'our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors' for the prosecution of the war to a completion consistent with our honor and independence....Pending these resolutions, Col. Wm. C. Scott and R. Ivanhoe Cocke addressed the meeting in favor of their adoption, and being put to the vote by the chairman, they were unanimously adopted..." Fine.
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