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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Trigg or search for Trigg in all documents.
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Affairs in East Tennessee.
A correspondent of the Dispatch writes from Jonesboro', Tenn., July 27th:
I send you a copy of the ticket the Unionists here will vote on Thursday next.
Trigg, (who is a Virginian,) was to be run for Governor; but after they had nominated him, they learned that he was ineligible, having only been a resident of the State five years, when our Constitution says seven.
They then took up Polk, who is a Secessionist of the strongest kind;--very consistent these Union men are. They hate secession very badly, but vote for secession men for Governor!
You will see that Mr. Nelson is running for the United States Congress.
It is a fact well known here that no law of the State authorizes such an election; all laws on that subject having been repealed by our last Legislature.
And yet such a man as Mr. Nelson will hazard his law-abiding character by deliberately violating the law and inciting others to do the same.
But he will come right after a whil