Monday, January 31, 2011

January 30, 1861

“ … Virginia – the home of the Constitution, the mother of Independence as well as of Presidents, the burial ground of Washington, of Madison, Jefferson and Henry, and the rest – Virginia, the shrine of so many memories, associations and glories, she must put on her armor and buckle on her shield, to save the constitution she bore so great a part in framing, and the Union, in whose affairs she has taken such a noble part.”

- Editorial, The Daily Virginian

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