Virginia, diversity of sentiment in, [10];
attitude of dominant element in, regarding slavery and secession, [10], [11];
her opposition to coercion and grounds therefor, [11];
right of self-government, basis of her position, [12];
her Colonial record regarding slavery, [15]-[24];
her efforts to restrain increase of slavery defeated by Great Britain, [17], [18];
petition of her House of Burgesses, 1772, to King George, against African slave trade, [18];
her opposition to African slave trade declared, by Mr. Jefferson, in the original Declaration of Independence, [19];
her opposition to African slave trade voiced in county meetings, [21];
resolutions of her Colonial Convention against importation of slaves, [21];