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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The New Attorney-General. (search)
lections, sent a commission to the Peace Congress, and of this commission Mr. Davis was a member. Learning from the result of that mission, undertaken for purposes of an honorable and satisfactory settlement of our difficulties with the North, how impossible it was for the South to live in amity and honor in a Governmental union with the North, he returned to his home at Wilmington, and bade his countrymen prepare for the struggle which he saw was at hand, and not to be averted, except by a slavish abandonment of all our rights. In a like spirit of abandonment of old party predilections, Mr. Davis was elected a Senator of the Confederate Congress at the same time that the Hon. Wm. T. Dortch, an old Democrat, was elected. Mr. Davis "drew" the short term, and Mr. Dortch the long term. At the last winter's session of the Legislature of North Carolina, ex-Gov. Wm. A. Graham was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of the Hon. George Davis.