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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], To the voters of the Fifth Congressional District, composed of the counties of Prince Edward, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Charlotte, Halifax, and Appomattox. (search)
To the voters of the Fifth Congressional District, composed of the counties of Prince Edward, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Charlotte, Halifax, and Appomattox. --A question has been made whether a commission in the army is of necessity a disqualification of the holder for a sent in the Confederate Congress. Whether such commission operates as a disqualification or not, depends, I humbly conceive, upon the fact whether the commission be held under the Confederate or a State Government An officer holding a commission from the Commonwealth of Virginia can assuredly, in no sense be said to be an officer under the Confederate States. So far as I am personally concerned, holding as I do a commission issued by State authority, I might well rest myself upon this view of the question. Not, however, desiring to occupy a doubtful position upon this or any other subject, I will state that position unmistakably. It is known that I was a member of the Virginia Convention Knowing that