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 HRSOLTTTIONS 
 
 
 Passed al a meeting of thi ht of Virginia Enfant? 
 
 ie , itioi) of the country and the conduct of 41 
 
 war. 
 
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 At :i u t*te< ritb Virginia [nfantry, held at their 
 
 Camp, ti< ■ • Bermuda Hundreds, Jam , 1865, the following : 
 
 amble and resolutions were tmanimoui ly adopted : 
 
 Whereas the successes which Iiave Reentry attended the arms of 
 our enemies, in their mad determination to subjugate an enlightened, 
 christian and independent people, b b a gloom over our land ; 
 
 and whereas, a disposition of many weak hearted and weak min 
 counsellors to magnify defeat into hopeless disaster, and to give cur- 
 rent publicity to rumors questioning the unabated fervor of the vete- 
 rans of our armies in support of the sacred cause for which they h 
 sacrificed every comfort, during four ; continuous warfare, and 
 
 which they still live to defend, has generated a degree of despondencJ 
 in the breasts of some of whom we mighl ha^ i id better thin 
 
 and deeming an unqualified expression of our opinion, as a reginu tit, 
 and a similar one on the part of our brothers in arms, will be sufficient 
 to dispel this gloom, and to check and extinguish forever I he wild 
 rumors which have found too rich a repasl in credulous minds, i'<n- thv 
 public good ; therefore, 
 
 1, Jxesolved, That a Southern soldier o* citizen, who for any other 
 consideration than that of absolute freedom and eternal separation 
 from that enemy who have spared no species of insult or injury that 
 malice could devise, would lay down his arms, and now submit, is un- 
 worthy to breathe the air of freedom, and should, with his posterity, 
 be the serf of serfs to the remotest generation. 
 
 9. Reserved, That Ave hereby pledge to the living, and to those who 
 shall come after us, in support of our own liberty, and their ransom 
 from worse than Egyptian bondage, as our fathers have done before 
 us, "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." assuring them that 
 it is better to die freemen, than to live slaves. 
 
 3. liesolved, That we have unbounded confidence in our ability, 
 under the guidance of an over-ruling Providence, to achieve a glorious 
 
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