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Re: Secession - West Virginia Style?
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Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:27:32 -0400
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In a message dated 9/29/2003 7:06:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> Wasn't it Henry A. Wise who called the creation of West
> Virginia as a state "the bastard offspring of a political rape?"



HBG:

I prefer Theodore Lang's version. He called West Virginia "a child of the storm, born amid the throes of war."

Sincerely,

Mike Peters
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