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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.affairs in Wythe county. Wytheville, Va., May 25th, 1861. The following is the result of the election held in this county on Thursday last. The vote is larger than on any previous occasion, when we take into consideration the number of our citizens who have left for the seat of war: For ratification, 1,409; for amendment Constitution 1,393; against it, 1. W H. Cook, Legislature, 982; James Graham, Legislature, 358--Cook's majority 624. The solitary vote east against secession was polled at Poplar Camp, by an individual who had a load of bald-face Ohio whiskey on, which sent an unusual amount of Unionism to his head, as he is known here as employed making lead pills for Yankees at the mines there. Since my last, large numbers of troops have passed over our road; scarce a day passes that five hundred or better are not regaled by our citizens on the best our county affords, and the cry is "still they come." Well, let them come; we