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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