 While a majority of the state would look for compromises to the sectional differences, most people also opposed any restrictions on slaveholders' rights.As the state watched to see what South Carolina would do, many Unionists felt that the greatest danger to the state came not from the North but from "rash secession" by the lower South.On November 15, 1860 Virginia Governor John Letcher called for a special session of the General Assembly to consider, among other issues, the creation of a secession convention.