:11:00
Major, I'm leaving
for Pennsylvania tomorrow.
:11:06
War is the sum of all evils.
:11:09
But if I know myself,
all I am and all I have...
:11:13
...is at the service of my
home, my country.
:11:17
Your country, Thomas?
:11:19
Your country, my country. Is all one.
:11:24
All one, Thomas. All one.
:11:38
So that in the midst of the searching
of souls and the gnashing of teeth...
:11:44
...the delegates of this convention...
:11:46
...harried by the actions of a belligerent
usurper and the radicals of his party...
:11:52
...have stumbled into secession.
:11:55
Now God knows, I and many
in this room have resisted it.
:12:00
But how could there be union
with a section of the country...
:12:06
...that wants to impose
its will through coercion?
:12:11
Now that Virginia confronts the armed
might of the United States...
:12:17
...we Virginians have determined
that not one spot of her sacred soil...
:12:23
...be polluted by the foot of an invader.
:12:39
Now, in the memory of that great
Virginian, George Washington...
:12:44
...who was first in the hearts
of his countrymen and calling also...
:12:48
...upon the memory of his own gallant
father, General Light-Horse Harry Lee...
:12:54
...this convention now calls upon
Robert Edward Lee to take command...