To the voters of the Richmond Congressional District.
--Vote for
James Lyons, the able lawyer, the polished gentleman, the sound and sagacious statesman, the true Southern man, as shown by all his past political course.
Vote for
James Lyons, because of his superior qualifications to represent you in the Confederate Congress.
Vote for him, because of his early and able advocacy of the rights and interests of the slave holding States.
Vote for him because of his able and earnest advocacy of immediate secession upon the election of a Black Republican
President, which would have enabled us to take and hold
Fortress Monroe, one of the strongest forts in the country, the holding of which has enabled our enemies to collect and send out armies and navies for the harassment and subjugation of the
South while some who seek to represent you now in Congress were advocating a policy which did lose us
Fortress Monroe, and if persisted in much longer would have resulted in the loss to us of the
Gosport Navy-Yard and the Arsenal at
Harper's Ferry, and all the arms and ammunition they contained, so essential to us at that time, in order to enable as to maintain at all the unequal contest with a vindictive and cruel enemy, placing us as we should have been placed, manacled in chains as
Maryland, or at best overran and trampled on as they have been in
Kentucky and
Missouri.
Vote for him, because he has been faithful to every trust confided to him. Vote for him, because he has been faithful to every trust confided to him. Vote for him, because he has more experience and is better known beyond the limits of the
State than any other candidate, and by his graceful and polished manners and dignified, gentlemanly deportment will exert a greater influence in Congress than perhaps any other man we could elect.
Fellow citizens, forget party and the prejudices engendered during times of high party excitement, forget Whig, forget Democrat, and vote for
James Lyons, who has more qualifications for the office, and claims to your support, than any other man in this district.
I have known him since I was a boy. I know, and you, too know, and you, too know that he is honest, and will be, as he has been, faithful to every trust confided to him. In conclusion, I again say vote for him, elect him. Induing that you honor him, benefit the country, and secure for yourself the consolation for all future time that you aided in electing one so able, so useful, and so worthy as he will prove himself to be a resident of
Henrico, but a native of
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Hanover.
