sentences:  After Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, Judge Allen called a mass meeting in Botetourt County on December 10, 1860.He presented a resolution that he had drafted extolling Virginia's contributions to the nation's founding and condemning the north for "pharisaical fanaticism" concerning slavery and urged calling a convention to consider secession.The meeting overwhelmingly approved his document (except for 2 unnamed dissenters), which came to be called the "Botetourt Resolutions."