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we earnestly request you to allow your name to be presented to the voters of the city as one of their delegates to said Convention. Very respectfully,Your friends and fellow-citizens, Geo. W. Hobson, Samuel J. Harrison, R. H. Meade, P. T. Moore, Hubert P. Lefebvre, J. H. Claiborne, W. Willis, Wm. P. Palmer, M. D., T. Roberts Baker, E. B. Meade, V. H. Claiborne, Jno. P. Little, M. D., A. M. Bailey, Geo. W. Jones, Wm. G. Williams, A. Morris, Th. Pollard, M. D., Loraine F. Jones, Jos. S. James, J. P. Duval, E. S. Taliaferro, E. Payson Reeve, P. A. Wellford, W. L. Baker, Chas. A. Rose, N. P. Sheppard, Thos. R. Price, James Walsh, R. P. Richardson, J. H. Munford, Ed. C. Drew, R. M. Nimmo, Maxwell T. Clarke, J. H. Blair, Walter K. Martin, W. O. Harvie, B. E. Meade, F. J. Sampson, Lewis H. Blair, W. G. Pollard. Richmond, Jan. 16, 1861. Richmond Jan. 16th, 1861. To Messrs. George W. Hobson, Samuel J. Harrison, R. H. Meade, P. T. Moore, and others. Gentlemen:
Henrico County.--Messrs. Jos. C. Burton, Garland Hanes, James T. Redd.-- Gentlemen: I have received a communication, signed by yourselves and one hundred and seventy-eight other citizens of Henrico county, calling upon me "as one who will truly represent the sentiments of a majority of the people of Henrico," to allow you to use my name as a candidate for Henrico for the Convention. Whilst I have no ambition to be a member of the Convention, I do not feel that I have the right to refuse to comply with a request, made under such circumstances. I therefore consent to your making such use of my name as you may deem proper. I am one of those who are most hopeful of the honorable and final settlement of the questions that now distract the country. Should you elect me, I will devote myself to the earnest effort to secure all our rights as Virginians and as Southern men, and to the preservation of the Union. I would proceed with prudence and deliberation; i