The result was announced as above recorded.
Mr. McCLERNAND:—This vote divides the Republican party, and sounds its death knell.
No. V.
REPORTS OF DELEGATES TO STATES.
Report of the Peace Commissioners to the Legislature of Virginia.
To His Excellency John Letcher, Governor of Virginia:
The undersigned Commissioners, in pursuance of the wishes of the General Assembly, expressed in the resolutions of the 19th day of January last, repaired in due season to the City of Washington. They there found, on the 4th day of February, the day suggested in the overture of Virginia for a Conference with the other States, Commissioners to meet them from the following States, viz.: Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. Subsequently, during the continuance of the Conference, at different periods, appeared likewise Commissioners from Tennessee, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Maine, Iowa, and Kansas. So that before the close twenty-one States were represented by Commissioners, appointed either by the Legislatures or Governors of the respective States.
The undersigned communicated the resolutions of the General Assembly to this Conference, and, both before its committee appointed to recommend a plan of adjustment, and the Conference itself, urged the propositions known as the Crittenden resolutions, with the modification suggested by the General Assembly of Virginia, as the basis of an acceptable adjustment.