"In the light of the recent North Virginia state legislation, and the governor’s statements and increasingly strong proindependence stand, I think the evidence suggests we’re not seeing representative government at work here, but rather the furtherance of personal and self-serving concerns. Whatever interests are at work here, they’re edging us close to a conflict we do not need and, I hope to God, do not want. We are close to the two-hundredth anniversary of the Civil War; we don’t need another."