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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Jan. 30, 1865.— Laid on 
 the table and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By the Chair.] 
 
 RESOLUTIONS 
 
 Pasted at a Meeting of the Ninth Virginia Infantry — January 25, 1865. 
 
 At a meeting of the 9th Virginia Regiment of Infantry, held 
 January 25th, 1865, the following preamble and resolutions were 
 passed, with but two dissenting voices: 
 
 Whereas it seems that there are some persons within the Confede- 
 rate States, who, unmindful of the blood that has been shed, and 
 regardless of the sacrifices we have already made, are willing to ac- 
 cept peace upon the basis of reconstruction of the Union : and 
 whereas, believing the day of concession and of compromise to be 
 past, we think that peace, obtained on any such terms, would prove 
 but a short truce, and would but dam up the stream of blood, that 
 the torrent might How the deeper in the future : and whereas we, 
 the officers and men of the 9th Virginia Regiment of Infantry, 
 Stewart's brigade, Pickett's division, mostly refugees from Eastern 
 Virginia, whose homes have been desolated, and loved ones oppressed 
 and insulted, desire thus to express our opinion to our friends at 
 home, and our brothers in arms: 
 
 1. Resolved, that the cruel vindictiveness and angry boasts of our 
 enemy, daring the pasl tour years of strife, have but proved the just- 
 ness of our cause, and should nerve a brave people to a more deter- 
 mined resistance. 
 
 2. Resolved, that we, in the beginning of this new year, not un- 
 mindful of our past privations and dangers, dropping a tear upon the 
 graves of our fallen comrades, remembering with the tenderest emo- 
 tions our loved ones at home, weary of waiting our return, firmly 
 relying upon a just God, renew our pledges to liberty, and reconse- 
 crate our best energies to the achievement of independence for our 
 dear BOutheiD land. 
 
 ::. Resolved, that we owe it to ourselves, to the cause of liberty, 
 and to the memory of those who have fallen in our sacred cause, to 
 st, to the last extremity, a foe, subjection to whom would make 
 life itself a burden. 
 
4. Resolved, that we have no new pledges to make, but stand 
 ready with our lives to redeem those already given. 
 
 5. Resolved, that a copy of these proceedings be forwarded to 
 brigade and division head quarters, Richmond and Petersburg press, 
 Virginia legislature and congress of the Confederate States. 
 
 THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, Pres. 
 J. S. GILLIAM, Jr., Set. 
 
 
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