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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War Movements. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], English Opinions on the Fort Sumter affair. (search)
Voting in Virginia — the vile creature Brooks.
The New York Express has the following:
"Voting in Virginia.--It seems to be understood that all the Confederate States troops in Virginia are to vote on the final secession of that State.
A regular camp vote is to be taken — so many men from Alabama, so many from South Carolina, so many from Tennessee, &c. It is suggested that several of our Zouave regiments should also vote on the other side.
Bilty Wilson's men are used to the importation of voters business, and were never yet known to be beaten at an election.--We have not the least idea that Virginia will go for secession if the ballot-boxes are flung open to outsiders and outside States."
The above statement is made also by other Northern papers.
It is all false, as they well know.
The Virginia Ordinance only authorized voters of Virginia who might be absent from their regular voting places on military duty to vote at any place they might happen to be. We don't