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Excerpt from Speech of William L. Goggin, of Bedford, on Federal Relations: In the Convention of Virginia, on the 26th February, 1861
Mr. President, I should not ask the attention of this body to day upon the great and important questions which now distract the country, were it not that I feel it to be my duty at this time, to express the views which will govern and control my action here. I have come here as a member of this body to endeavor, in such a manner as may seem proper to myself, to discharge the high, responsible duty which rests upon me, as one of those who have been clothed with the sovereignty and power of my native State. I have not, heretofore, as you will bear me wit ness, occupied one moment's time and attention of this body, and I assure you, sir, that I now enter upon the performance of this duty, with many misgivings of my capacity to say anything that can be calculated in any degree to re?ect even the smallest light upon subjects so momentous as those which not only agitate our own State, but this Union, from one extremity to the other.
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