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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
on, "It is for the good of the country.") He wrote letters to the Hon Andrew Ewing, J. S. Billings, and others of Nashville, Tenn., avowing his earnest support of the Constitution, and all its guarantees. Mr. Dickinson calculated largely upon the vote of Southern Democrats. His firm friends, Hon. Andrew Ewing, was chairman of the Tennessee delegation. At Baltimore the out-cropping of secession war too plain to be misunderstood Mr. Dickinson saw no chance to defeat the great and patriotic Douglas before that Convention. The delegation was hesitating, when Mr. Ewing received a letter from Mr. Dickinson, in which he said: "Secede from the Convention, and I will go with you." The seceding delegates did not nominate Mr. Dickinson. Ewing and other delegates went home and proclaimed that "Dickinson advised the secession." In March, after the inauguration, Mr. Ewing was asked to join the Union men in a meeting in Nashville. He replied: "I want the North to see that we intend to fight —