A correspondent recently returned from Richmond, Va., thus alludes to the position Mr. Botts is now placed in: “When in Richmond I saw Mr. Botts. Mr. Botts is virtually a prisoner in his own house. When he gets a chance to speak, he denounces the secession of Virginia and says that it was a fatal act, and he hopes that a restoration of the Union may be affected.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 2
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