W. T. Willey letter to J. W. Paxton [manuscript], 1863 January 1.

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W. T. Willey letter to J. W. Paxton [manuscript], 1863 January 1.

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Willey, Washington, D. C., writes to Paxton [Wheeling, W. Va.], announcing the "agony is over" and President Lincoln has signed the bill admitting West Virginia. Willey describes the scene at the White House the previous night attended by [William G.] Brown, [Jacob Beeson] Blair and himself at which three cabinet members [Seward, Staunton, and Chase] gave written opinions in favor of admission, and three others [Welles, Bates and Blair] were opposed, noting "You see we had the brains on our side." He assumes a convention will now be convened and concludes "only those who performed it, are prepared to appreciate the difficulties we have encountered, & the amount of labor, forbearance, and discretion that were requisite to accomplish the end." With the letter is a fragment of a clipping discussing statehood and Paxton's role.

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