ADDRESS OF GOV. VANCE ON THE CONDITION OF COUNTRY caption drop title over the first column of text . Delivered at Wilkesboro, N.C., February 22d, '64 followed

by two pages of dense text, in five columns

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Raleigh, NC? np, 1864 . Single sheet, printed both sides, 20 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches. I have come among you to beg you in the name of reason, of humanity, to obey the law, to recognize order and authority, to do nothing except in the manner prescribed by the Constitution, to bear the Constitution, to bear the ills you have rather than fly to evils you know not of ... I have no more doubt now about the establishment of the independence of the Southern Confederacy

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