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them to free negroes, one of whom could read. They had also been sent to negroes in Essex and Orange under the same frank. He then produced two envelopes which had been preserved. Mr. Clemens examined the franks, and pronounced them both forgeries. Mr. Montague was glad to hear it. He proceeded to make a point that when corruption had become so great at Washington that forgery was resorted to for the purpose of circulating documents, it was time for the South to cut loose. Mr. Branch, of Petersburg, raised a point of order. Mr. Montague remarked that he had said all he had to say. Mr. Hall, of Wetzel, said he was familiar with Mr. Clemens' handwriting, and those franks were unquestionably forgeries. Mr. Holcombe, of Albemarle, said that as reference had been made to a paper published in his county, he felt it incumbent on him to say, that though the gentleman from Ohio had fairly and fully exonerated himself, the statement that such matter under such fra