The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Sketch of a Yankee representative.

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Sketch of a Yankee representative.

--The "election" of Warren W. Wing, a Yankee, to represent the Norfolk (Va) district in the Federal Congress, has been published. The Charleston Courier gives the following sketch of this rascal:

‘ A well informed and trustworthy friend tells as that he knew wing in 1844, as office clerk for Dr. Raylor & Tenstall, physicians of Norfolk. After a few years, those physicians abandoned the and prescription business; whereupon Wing themed a partnership in the apothecaries line with one. Ludlow. Business promised and prospered very well, and Wing exhibited his gratification by excessive drinking, and by a lucky his in a lottery, Ludlow, his partner, succeeded, after many disappointments and vexations, in buying out Wing's share, and getting rid of him. Wing, who was by this time an invertebrate toper and sol, took refuge at the farm of his mother in-law, Mrs. Lugg, near Morfors, and pretended to manage her business — He became, however, from his drinking excesses, such an intolerable nuisance, that he was driven out and off by his wife and mother in-law. After some vicissitudes and shifts, he procured a small clerkship in the Norfolk Navy-Yard, and, on a show or reform, was re-united to his wife and family. He is a "model representative" of and for the Yankees.

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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 8, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Sketch of a Yankee representative.