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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource],
Synod ofVirginia --(search)Fourth day.
Synod of Virginia--Fourth day.
--After the devotional services of the morning, the session of the Synod was taken up in a discussion on domestic missionary operations--one of the most interesting subjects under discussion yet before the Synod.
A report of a committee on this subject was then unanimously adopted.
In the afternoon Rev. Dr. Bocock, formerly of Georgetown, D. C. but recently driven back to his mother State by the Federal troops, was admitted to a seat as a corresponding member, and made a most touching and eloquent appeal in behalf of one of the families of the church, which had been deprived of all means of support by the barbarous cruelty of the enemy.
Rev. Richard McIlwaine appeared and took his seat as a member of the Synod.
Previous to the adjournment, the Synod unanimously voted resolutions of thanks to the citizens of Petersburg for the generous hospitality extended by them to the members; also to the several religious denominations of the c
A card.--Cavalry Camp at Young's farm Warwick Co., Va., Oct. 19, 1861. To the Voters of the Fifth Congressional District:
I am informed that my opponent, the Hon. Thos. S. Bocock, is making an active canvass of our District, and that in some portions of it his supporters are making what I think I may characterize as an ungenerous attack upon me, on account of my position in the military service.
In view of all this, I am urged by my friends to appear myself before the people of the District.
In reply.
I regret to have to say that I cannot, at this particular juncture, consistently with a sense of duty, leave my post for any electioneering purpose.
My position upon the one great and absorbing question of the times is well known, at least to a portion of the District.
At a time when it was reckoned but little short of treason, I proclaimed before the people that the election of a Republican President should be the signal for planting the standard of the South upo