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Oh the uCpuDtASoiA r
County, Virginia, held at the Tavern OF
Resin Wileoxen on Monday the Sd day OF
October 1903, agreeably to public notice.
General THompsoN Mason, was appoint
ed Chairman, and
IoHs C. HvNTER, Secretary.
On motion, the following gentlemen
were appointed committee for the purpose
of draughting Resolutions expressive OF the
sentiments oft Meeting. Gen. Ihomp-
SON Mason, John c. Hunter, George Ora
ham. George Summers, Humphrey Peake,
Henry Rose, William Moss, James Waugh,
Francis Golfer, George Minor, and Lewis
Summers. The committee retired, and IN
short time reported the following which
were unanimously adopted.
Pesolped, That our confidence in the
wisdom, patriotism, and integrity, ct the
President and Congress the United States,
is undiminished- and that the just, pacific
and strictlv neutral conduct which our exc
e,tiye government has prescribed TO itself
and which it has ARMY and undeviatlngly
pursued in all its relations and intercourse
with foreign nations, commands our highest
approbation. and entities it to our most yea
lous support. &c che French
80. ,,s,s4;ell orders IN Ioun-
c y not only such outrages Oh Our
ca, We. but were also such direct attacks
on our Independence, as ;mperiously to call
on o. gSgovernment for prompt and ethca-
cious measures to counterfeit them--that to
If were left the alternatives only of war with
all or one of the belligerent powers--or Of
submission to the most fragrant violation OF
national right and national independence
or a temporary abandonment OF the ocean,
until the pslting of the storm should have
passed BY. To have waged war agairstall
the belligerent powers would have been
Quixotic--Against either OF them would
have necessarily entangled us IN alliances
with the Others, policy so e1nphatically
deprecated bv the great Washington. To
have submitted would have been pusilla-
nmous sacrifice of national honor and iade-
pendence. To have reilnquished our pur-
suits on the ocean for time ,sseerHs to have
!, - y'Slnlnens
nesa s11Ss ibuslV urged BY every dictate Of
humanity, as well as sound policy. It has
certainly preserved us from becoming a par
ty in one of the most desolating wars that
ever disgraced the annals of man. It has
saved to us a number of our fellow citizens
and an immense value of property that was
afioat on the ocean it has given the bellige-
rent powers time to revise their conduct ur-
der the pressure of these Inconvenience
which that conduct brought upon them
selves; and it has preserved to US unsul!ied
our national honor and independence, at the
expence certainly of many individual pecu-
MARY sacrifices but they are sacrifices to
yatriotisin, and we eheerfully make them.
Resolsed, That although we think every
man WHO'S not disposed to sacrifice the good
of his country to personal or party aggran-
dizement, ought at all times to be exceed
ingly cautious in publicly disappearing of
and protesting against such measures as his /
government may have taken to coerce TO-
reign powers into a respect for It's rights
vet if any of our citizens choose so to DO,
IN candid and respectful manner, we know
of norfght that any ether portion Of them
have to object but when such seditious and
efsoreaniziRe' se'atipacttS, sttch base, an
fouased and malicious cahtmnies against our
government, rs are contained in an address
to the president of the United States from
certainpersons styling themselves commit
TIE of the people Of Augusta county, are
attempted to be disseminated among the
people by party men, for party purposes,
we think it the duty of every good man, of
every party, to come forward and express
his decided disapprobation and utmost abb
horrence of such proceedings.
Rssofpsd, That whatever differences of
opinion may have existed among US, as to
the proprieV of the original nomination of
fit republican character to fill the office Of