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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from Portsmouth (search)
this diabolical and inhuman business are not positively known, but sus places it upon the shoulders of a lawyer and both recently returned from the While believing these suspicious to be well I withhold their names, because there is nothing positive, and I am unwilling to do even to two such unprincipled and un traitors as these are known to be. for an election of a member to represent the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth and the counties of Norfolk, Flansemond, Princess Anne and Isle of Wight in the present Yankee Congress is out. The voting is to be a test of alle and those refusing to vote are to be subject pains and penalties" to which disloyal and people are liable. Among the candidates mentioned for this seat of infamy, I may mention those of L. C. P. Cowper and John O' Lawrence. The first of this brace of worthies is a lawyer of city, who rendered himself infamously by voting for Lincoln; and then, to escape the indignation of the people, (which, by the way,