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Page 2, Lower Half
Interesting From Virginia.
Our Richmond Correspondence.
Richmond, Va., April 6, 1861.
The Present Attitude of Virginia – How Long is She to Remain in the Union? – The Union Men in the Convention Endeavoring to Escape from the Rising Tide of Revolution, &c., &c.
The cord which binds Virginia to the Union at this moment is so slight as to need but the pressure of any little emergency to snap it forever. It is fast yielding under the natural strain of Southern interest and Southern sympathy; and any sudden emergency which would abruptly rend it would but anticipate by a few months a result that is not inevitable.
Citation:New York Herald. 10 April 1861. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab. AN .N56792