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Excerpt from Speech of Joseph Segar, Esq., Of the York District: Delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia, March the 30th, 1861, on the Resolutions of the Senate, Directing the Governor of Virginia to Seize, by Military Force, the U. S. Guns at Bellona Arsenal, and on the Secession of Virginia
The simple truth is, that the guns were to be sent to Fort ress Monroe because it is the only convenient depot to receive them. His not only the most natural and proper place to send them to, but the only one in the State within convenient reach. The panic, therefore, which has arisen from these simple circumstances is totally groundless, and is, I must say, unworthy the chivalry of Virginia. It can have no effect but to scare timid women and children, and does not become grown up and bearded men; and if this legislature, under provocation so slight and circumstances so trivial, shall adopt these resolves, they will provoke the contempt of the brave and chivalrous throughout the land.
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