Monday, December 25, 1865 — The daily dispatch
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John M. Botts. of Virginia, visited the capi- ;
to! tliis morning, and looked,as hale and aa
hearty as when, more than twenty years ago,
he slept in the same bed with John Tyler, lie
contends not only for the constitutionality, but
for the necessity of the test oath which ex
cludes the Southern members. [So says Mr.
Forney. We should be planned, to learn that
he has mistaken Mr. Botts's posistion.s