OohPooPahDoo
Gold Member
The elected government of Virginia DURING the war remained in Richmond. The self appointed and unelected bunch that fashioned themselves the government of Virginia had no authority.Oh. You mean a puppet govt. did that after the fact. The fact is that the southern states had to meet a bunch of conditions to get all of their political rights back.
No, idiot, I'm talking about the legal government of Virginia DURING the war, NOT AFTER. Can you READ? That is the government that consented to West Virginia's becoming its own state BEFORE West Virginia was accepted by Congress, NOT AFTER.
Lord Almighty.
That government ABDICATED ITSELF as a state government of the United States by declaring secession. By declaring secession every seat of the legislature of Virginia under the Untied States WENT VACANT. You can't claim that a government which declares secession from the United States to be a state government of the United States, that's fucking moronic.