A CARD. / My fellow Citizens of / Greene and Orange: / In the Orange Chronicle of last week, / I caused myself to be announced as a / candidate to represent you in the Con- / vention just called by the Legislature ... / [followed by eight long paragraphs of text in four columns]. Signed in type at the end "John Willis."
NP: np, [1861]. Printed broadside, 17 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, employing bold capitals for the short head. Issued as a campaign platform for a position as one of the delegates to Virginia's secession convention, Willis argues forcefully for secession in this broadside, defends the institution of slavery, and announces..... More