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Richmond, Virginia
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Report on Know Nothing party convention in the city at African Church, involving Locofocos, stormy nominations for legislature, and call for Jefferson Ward meeting to select representatives amid ward rivalries.
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Convention of the Know Nothing party held at African Church with about ninety-five Locofocos consisting of twenty persons; described as stormy meeting with loud nominations; tug of war over who should go to Legislature; three gentlemen declared nominees after hammer dropped. Comments on Madison and Monroe Wards having nominated representatives; call for meeting in Jefferson Ward to nominate candidates for Senate and House among four hundred voters.