Sentence:  While the Daily Post continued to accuse Republicans and the Daily Journal continued to accuse Democrats , the Woonsocket Patriot complained that the <WSD>Virginia</WSD> authorities showed indecent and cowardly haste to condemn Brown and his men . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War