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Robert Humphry, John Brown & John
Morgan, be a committee to correspond
■with such other committees as are or
may be appointed within this common
wealth.
Resolved, That the chairman of the
committee of correspondence transmit a
copy ol these proceedings, regularly at
tested, to the President ol the United
States ; and also one copy to the Gover
nor ol this commonwealth ; and one to
the corresponding committee at Rich
mond ; and that they be sent for publica
tion in the Wheeling Repository, and
Pittsburgh Commonwealth.
On motion, Resolved, That this meet
ing do highly approve of the resolutions
adopted by their fellow-citizens, at the
town of Wheeling, on the 29th ult.
On motion, Resolved, That the thanks
oi this meeting be tendered to the chair
man and.secretary, for the able discharge
of their duties.
Signed by order and in behalf of the
^meeting,
Benjamin Biggs, Chairman.
Attested, James Hughs, Secretary.
Jhe General of the Third Division of
the Militia of Virginia, to the Officers
wul Privates composing said Division.
While the United States were culti
vating the arts of peace, and reaping its
bountiful and just rewards, and from
that good faith, justice and hospitality,
which they have always observed to
wards all nations, had reason to expect
a continuation ol these blessings ; on a
sudden we are aroused from this agree
able reverie with the sound of war, and
called to arms. A nation, whose sub
jects were daily enjoying the benefits of
undisguised hospitality from us ; who
were enriching themselves by their
commercial intercourse with us \ whose
government, by hypocritical assurances
of friendship, had lulled us into a vain
security; grown insolent in her maritime
strength, claiming the dominion of the
seas, and regardless of the law of nati
ons, has had the audacity to attick one
of our ships of war, then in a state un
prepared tor resistance, and in a most
deliberate, cruel and wanton manner,
murdered a part of her crew, and disa
bled her from proceeding on a foreign
.iti\ ice for winch she was t.^ *1 destined.
In short, to take a retrospective view
of the conduct of the Hritish nation to
wards the United States and her citi
zens, will convince us that this is only
another bloody link in the Chain of in
suit and aggression heretofore commit
ted, and now forms a consistent whole,
from which we can distinctly judge of
her friendship and views towards us.—
These injuries, past and present, com
mitted in such a dastardly and perfidiQis
manner, at length “ brings our sensibili
ties to a serious crisis, and our forbear
ance” to an end. They have struck the
first blow of war, and we must close in
the appeal to arms.
The President of the United States
has deemed it necessary to call on the
Executives of the different states, to
hold a part of the militia in readiness
to march at a moment’s warning. Con
formable to this requisition, our Gover
nor and Council have entered into an
order, that eleven thousand, five hun
dred and sixty-three men (officers in
cluded) shall be detached from the mi
litia ol Virginia ; of which number, the
third division shall furnish three thou
sand, two hundred and twenty-three in
fantry, (one thousand, one hundred and
fifty-six, part thereof, shall be riflemen)
one hundred and eighty-nine artillery,
and two hundred and forty-eight caval
ry.
Shall we then, at a crisis so important
as the present, wait until all the tedious
forms of law shall be gone through ?
Until orders shall be regularly issued
lrom one authority to another ; the pro
portions of each brigade and regiment
ascertained, and a draught made from
amongst us to supply our quota now
called for ? Is it not enough for to know
that our government wants men ? Shall
the sons of those heroes who fought the
battles of the Cowpens, of King’s moun
tain, of Guilford, and of the siege of
\ ork, hesitate for a moment to face the
enemy vanquished by their fathers ?_
Ait the sons ol America, nursed in the
cradle of Liberty, matured in the school
of Patriotism, less virtuous, less valiant,
than their fathers ? We trust not_
Rouse then, fellow-citizens, and be rea
dy at any moment to meet our arrogant
foe, lest delaying, the manes of our fa
thers, the departed heroes and patriots
of 1776, may frown on and reproach us,
as their degenerate sons. Let us rise
up and shew to the world, that we can
do at least what our fathers have done
before us,—humble tyrants and defend
our liberties. Let us rally around the
constituted authorities of our country,
pledge ourselves, our property, and e
very thing we hold dear and sacred, to
support defend the government ofi
their choice ; a government founded on
the unalienable & imprescriptable rights
of man, and obtained at the expense of v •
our blood and treasure. Let us, with
one heart and one mind, offer ourselves
to the Executive of the United Stater,
to dispose of our services as he shall
deem most expedient and conducive to
the great objects at which wc ai.l aim.
Tardiness at this crisis, would evince a
criminal want of manly feeling and pa
triotic animation. 1
Strongly impressed with the opinion,
that volunteers of infantry, riflemen, ar
tillery and cavalry,sufficient to complete
the number'called for, will offer them
selves, the General declares his readi
ness to accept a tender of their services,
and fondly hopes, that from the manner
in which the sensibility of all must be
excited on the occasion which has given
rise to the President’s proclamation of
the second inst. and his call for part of
the militia, and from the well known re
gard which every brave man has to dis
charge that duty which he owes to his
country, he will not he compelled (in or
der to raise his quota) to resort to the
disagreeable and degrading alternative
of ordering a draught in his division.
A satisfaction not easily^expressed will
be felt by the General, if* he shall have
it in his power shortly to aunounce to
the President of the Uuited States and
the Governor of Virginia, that his divi
sion & himself have volunteered them
selves, and are ready to march at any
moment they shall be ordered.
J. Preston, General
of the 3d Division of the
IVIilitia of Virginia.
wHEE LING,
T hursday, 8th October, 1807.
P APER....In the last number of the Re
pository, printed on the 6th of August,
we stated that w'e had been under the
necessity of printing it for a few weeks
on writing paper ; that applications had
been made at Redstone and at Cham
bcrsbungh, for printing paper ; that a
small quantity was on the way from
Chambersburgh, and more was expect
ed ; and that under these circumstances
it was thought best to suspend the pub
lication of the paper for a short period,
until a supply of printing paper, (which
we then supposed could certainly be had
from Chambersburgh) would enable us
to issue it in its proper form. The sus