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STATE CONVENTION IN VlRGINIA.-ln the State Con.
vention Of Virginia we may expect to the intre
duction Of many of those original ideas anticipated
this region, in the meeting of the popular elements
Of reform and change. One of these will be some
system for the gradual abolition of slavery. At the
State Convention which created the present Const-
tuition OF Virginia, there purpose to introduce
the question of the abolition Of slavery, and it would
nave been proposed by Western Virginia; but owing
10 an excitement occasioned by negro massacre in
Southampton, and the agitation of the subject by the
abolltionists OF the North, who then began their
movement, II was put down by large vote The
present state OF hngsin Virginia is very iferent,
and we should not be surprised to see such thing
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