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But how could there be union
with a section of the country...
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...that wants to impose
its will through coercion?
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Now that Virginia confronts the armed
might of the United States...
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...we Virginians have determined
that not one spot of her sacred soil...
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...be polluted by the foot of an invader.
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Now, in the memory of that great
Virginian, George Washington...
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...who was first in the hearts
of his countrymen and calling also...
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...upon the memory of his own gallant
father, General Light-Horse Harry Lee...
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...this convention now calls upon
Robert Edward Lee to take command...
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...of the armed forces of
the Citizen Army of Virginia.
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Mr. President, gentlemen
of the convention...
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...l'm profoundly impressed by the
solemnity of the occasion...
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...for which I must say
I was not prepared.
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I accept the position assigned me
by your partiality.
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I would have much preferred had
your choice fallen on an abler man.
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But trusting to Almighty God,
an approving conscience...