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Richmond, June 17, 1862. To the Editors of the Dispatch:
Will you be good enough to insert in your paper the enclosed communication from my friend, John Finney, of New Orleans.
I desire to add to his own statement, that from the month of November, 1860, Mr. Finney has been, to my personal knowledge, a warm and devoted advocate of the cause of the Confederate States; that he was earnest in favor of secession from the moment that Lincoln's election was known; that he has with voice, purse, and hand, defended the independence of the Confederacy; that he was taken away from New Orleans while very ill by friends, who yielded to medical advice and procured from the enemy's General one of the usual printed passports, as a necessary means of saving his life, and that he has not yet recovered his health.
A Virginian by birth, married to a Southern lady, and with a numerous offspring born in New Orleans, he has abandoned there everything he possessed, and is now recruiting his