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The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861. (search)
our people would vote the ratification ticket. In every county in this (Wheeling) Congressional District, and in many of the counties of the adjoining (Parkersburg) District, a glorious change is going on. The speakers, to-day, were Col. James K. Smith, our delegate to the Legislature; Jno. S. Burdett, Esq., our delegate to the State Convention; C. W. Newlon, Esq., our State Senator, and James Neeson, Esq., the Senator from the Marion District. Mr. Neeson's speech was a most powerful and argumentative appeal to the people to repel the insults, injustice and outrages of an abolitionized Government, by voting for the ratification of the Ordinance. Mr. Smith and Mr. Newlon both made excellent speeches on the same side, urging the people to act a noble part. Mr. Burdett spoke in a subdued tone, neither sustaining nor opposing the Ordinance. He most earnestly, however, joined the other speakers in recommending peace, unanimity, and harmony of action among the people. He reminde