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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The law in relation to Substitutes (search)
Judge Monroe. We regret that our limits do not enable us to publish in full the admirable letter of Judge Monroe, formerly of Kentucky, to Major-Gen. Breckinridge, declining a nomination for Congress from the Ashland district by a Convention of the Kentuckians in Georgia. Whilst we deeply regret that the services of a citizens so illustrious for wisdom and virtue cannot be secured to our national councils, the reason he gives for declining the proffered honor are such as to increase our admiration of the uprightness and conscientiousness of the man. They are, in brief, that when he left Kentucky he expatriated himself from the United States without any intention of ever returning, and proceeded to Virginia, where he was born, and where he expects to spend the remainder of his days. He is, therefore, not an inhabitant of the Ashland district nor of the State of Kentucky, as required by the now permanent Constitution of the Confederate States and statute of the Legislative Counc