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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
To the Voters of Spotsylvania county.
--I see that Wm. S. Barton, Esq., is a candidate for a seat in the State Convention, to be held in Richmond on the 13th of February, I trust your high appreciation of him personally, and a reciprocation of the views expressed by him in his recent address to you, will be practically illustrated in his being returned a delegate to the Convention.
I have read his address with great care and attention, and, devoted to the Union as I am. I could conscientiously vote for him, because he admits an ardor of veneration for it so great that he would only destroy it temporarily, as a necessity and the only means of saving it, by re-construction upon principles which would guarantee the safety and honor of both sections.
I feel warranted in saying that Mr. Barton would rejoice in the preservation of the Union.
on the terms just indicated, and that, consequently, he would aid in dissolving the bands only when it was no longer honorable that Virginia s