[464]. Letcher and Smith were Governors of Virginia during the war.

[465]. McPherson’s Pol. Hand-Book, 1868, p. 8.

[466]. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. II. p. 70.

[467]. McPherson’s Pol. Hand-Book, 1868, pp. 10–11.

[468]. Ann. Cycl., 1865, p. 626.

[469]. This ordinance was ratified by a vote of 20,506 to 2,002; Poore’s Charters and Constitutions, Vol. II. p. 1419n; also Three Decades of Federal Legislation, p. 385.

[470]. Ratified by 19,039 to 3,970 votes. Poore’s Charters and Constitutions, Vol. II. p. 1419n.

[471]. McPherson’s Pol. Hand-Book, 1868, p. 19.

[472]. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXII., p. 127.

[473]. Ann. Cycl., 1865, p. 628.