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gation of the Southern people. It is useless to say that no sane Yankee can indulge such an idea. No Yankee is sane upon this subject. The consolidation idea in the Northern mind is universal and ineradicable. You might as well attempt to convince a Northern man that the city and county of New York are not part of the State of that name, or that Boston does not belong to Massachusetts, as that the Southern Confederacy is not a part of the Union. They look upon it as we look upon Northwestern Virginia, and mean to bring it back just as we mean to bring back the "State of Kanawha" to where it belongs. They think they can do it, for they have capital, numbers, great cities, all the outside show of wealth and power, whilst the South has a large, sparsely settled territory, with a comparatively small population, with no money, no manufactures, no commerce, its ports all closed to the outside world. If they cannot whip us at once in the field, they think they can tire us out and star
Walker, of Medissia. Asa Rogers, of Londeun. Samufl C. Williams, of Sheuandoah. S. McDOWFLL Reid, of Rockbridge. Henry A. Edmundson of Roanoke. Jas. W. Sheffey, of Smyth. Henry J Fistier, of Mason. Joseph Johnson, of Harrison. E. H. Fitzhugh, of Olno. Now, therefore, by vitue of authority vested in the executive by law, Thereby proclaim and make known that the said persons have been duty elected Electors of a President and Vice President of the Confederate States for an on behalf of the State of Virginia. The Electors are required by law to meet at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, on the first Wednesday in December next, by the hour of ten o'clock in the morning. L. S. Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the Seal of the common wealth, at Richmond, this 26th day of November, 1861, and in the year of the Commonwealth the eighty sixth. John Letcher. By the Governor: Geo. W. Munford, no 30--td Sec'y of the Com'th.
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The Kentucky line. We have information to the effect that the apprehensions lately entertained by the people of Southwestern Virginia, of an advance of the enemy, have ceased to exist, and they now feel comparatively secure. It is stated on what is deemed good authority that the Federals have been driven from the neighborhood of Pound Gap, and beyond Prestonsburg, Ky.