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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
Progress of the war. From our latest Northern files we make the following interesting extracts: General Floyd and the stolen arms. In his rejoinder to old granny Scott, ex-President Buchanan thus alludes to the charge that Secretary Floyd had stoles arms from the United States Government in preparation for the rebellion: I should have nothing more to add had General Scott, in his rejoinder, confined himself to the topics embraced in his original letter. He has extended them,reau, both in Washington and at those depositories. It may be observed that Col. Craig, the head of the Bureau at this period, was as correct an officer and as loyal and as honest a man as exists in the country. Yours, very respectfully, James Buchanan. Wheatland, near Lancaster, Nov. 17, 1862 Concentration of force the great Necessity. The New York Times, of Wednesday last, contains the following editorial: Do we mean to kill this rebellion or not? If we do, why this hacki
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
ution and anarchy. Mr. Vallandigham's hour having expired, Mr. Bingham said the speech of his colleague should not go unanswered. It was an apology for secession. When the gentleman history he should do it correctly. It charged that the movements looking to secession commenced at the South before Abraham Lincoln was elected. He charged that there would have been no rebellion now but for the course of the gentleman and his friends, and their cry of no coercion. The act of James Buchanan, in refusing to coerce the rebel States, was the cause of the protracted war and that act was sustained by the gentleman and his party. If Mr. Lincoln had followed the footsteps of his predecessor, and refused to coerce or interfere, it would have been a confession that the Government was unable to defend itself, and the result would have been disruption. But he acted differently. He called out an army to defend the Government. He had no doubt the gentleman was greatly grieved therea
The Daily Dispatch: May 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], National self-respect. (search)
planation, and that she would not have pushed the matter to a war is evident from the fact that weak and divided as the United States now are, she prefers to support her whole unemployed manufacturing population out of her private purse and by Government aid, rather than go to war with Yankeedom. Or, if she had chosen war, we see by what both sections have achieved in this contest what both might have accomplished if united, and guided by Southern wisdom and energy. But old Mr. James Buchanan was President — that weak, nerveless "public functionary"--and with that overweening estimate of English power, and disparaging idea of the resources of his own country which are chronic with a certain class of politicians and men, he lost the golden opportunity to vindicate the honor of his country and make the American name respected throughout the world. We refer to this incident now because there is too much even in our own Confederacy of this looking abroad with awe and rever
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Major General John B. Floyd. (search)
ated at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1826, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. After a short residence at Helena, Ark., he returned to Virginia and settled in Abingdon, Washington county, where he died. He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1847, and again in 1849, in which year he was elected by the Legislature Governor of Virginia for the term expiring January 1st, 1853. In 55 he was again elected to the Legislature. In '56 he was a Presidential elector, and voted for James Buchanan, by whom he was appointed Secretary of War of the U. S., and which office it will be remembered he resigned in January, '61, upon a disagreement with the President relative to measures touching Fort Sumter. His subsequent career is familiar to every one: his appointment as a Brigadier General in the Confederate army--his active campaign in Western Virginia--his brave defence of Fort Donelson--his suspension from command by the President for the circumstances of the surrender of that For
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Defacing the old Pub. Func. (search)
Defacing the old Pub. Func. --The editor of the Scranton (Penn.) Republican says: We saw a curious embellishment the other day — a five dollar bill on the Pottsville Bank, which contains in one corner a vignette of James Buchanan. Some person had bunged his eyes with led ink, drawn a gallows above his head, from which a rope was suspended that went round his neck, and then branded his forehead with the word "Judas." This is but one of hundreds. The bank has had to call in all its issue with that portrait on it, so unmistakable are the manifestations of popular indignation against the man who might, had he the will or the pluck, have nipped the rebellion in the bud, as Jackson did before him.
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the U. S. Senate--Garret Davis. (search)
minorities. I dare do my duty in exposing maladministration of the Government. I have disciplined myself in opposition. When the old hero of the Hermitage was President, I have heard the old lion of the Hermitage roar, and I am not now to be frightened by the howling of jackals. I am earnest and honest in the expression of my opinion; I ask only the freedom of an American citizen to investigate the administration of my Government; the administration of Abraham Lincoln, as well as James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce. That right I intend to claim. Mr. Doolittle said if the Senator from Kentucky or New Hampshire thinks there is any disposition to screen or cover up the truth, they are mistaken; there is no such purpose. All I have said is, that the attacks made upon the Administration by any member of this body, and especially upon the Navy Department. by the Chairman of the Naval Committee, is what I most deeply deplore. The Senator from Kentucky has heard the "Lion o
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Siege of Charleston. (search)
d T. Harris, Thos. R. Price, Samuel C. Tardy, *Alex Garrett. D. J. Saunders, Joseph P. Jones, *Ambrose Cariton, *Wm. H. Fowle. Petersburg. T. T. Broocks, Z. W. Pickrell, W. R. Johnson, *R. W. Brodeax. John B. Wilson, R. A. Young, *J. P. Williamson. Fredericksburg. W. P. Conway, M. Slaughter, J. H. Bradley, *John L. Marye, Jr. Wm. A. Little, Thos. F. Knox, *Robt B. Reynolds. Lynchburg. Criswell Daley, Jas. M. Cobbs, *W. T. Vancey, *Chas H. Lynch, Seth Woodraff, Sam M. Garland, *A Alexander, Danville. Thos. P. Alkinson, J. E. White, John A. Smith, *Jas. C. Voss. Wm. Risen, Wm. P. Graves, *Jas. E. Lipscomb, Union. John Echols, Geo. W. Hutchinson, N. H. Roberts, *J. W. Laniue. John A. Nichol, B. G. Dunlop, *Henry J. Relly. Buchanan Chas. T. Beale, Wm. W. Boyd, Jas. R. Wilson, Wm. J. Penn. Geo. S. Penn, John T. Anderson, *Wm. D. Couch, **These are new directors.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
scorching manifesto of Senator Pomeroy and his committee against Abraham Lincoln as a candidate for another term, and in favor of Mr. Chase for the succession, threatens, from present appearances, a rupture between the President and his ambitious Secretary. The spectacle of such a conflict for the Presidency is certainly a new thing under the sun, and somewhat discreditable withal to the belligerents. Not one of Mr. Lincoln's predecessors, excepting, perhaps, that imbecile old man, James Buchanan, would have tolerated for another day the presence of such a rival as Mr. Chase among his official subordinates after the discovery of such a declaration of war as this no quarter manifesto of Senator Pomercy. We are not surprised, therefore, to hear that the probabilities of a change or two in the Cabinet are beginning to be discussed among politicians at Washington. As between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Chase, the Cabinet is now a nondescript with two heads, and it is doubtful which is or w
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ut with the knowledge of the British Government to prey upon Yankee commerce. This is a very uncharitable notion, we admit; but it none the less exists, and, should the cause of the Confederacy fail, England will be called upon to make good all damages to Yankee merchantmen in this war, and, what is more, she will have to foot the bill. For, in the event of its success, the United States will be no longer the same nation that it was when, in the palmy days of that political eunuch, James Buchanan, English gunboats chased and boarded our own vessels on our own coast, and when John Bull twisted the nose and slapped the jaws of brother Jonathan as suited his sovereign convenience. The United States was then like a horse or an ass, that did not know its own strength. The exemplary Buchanan took kindly every affront put upon his nation, and made many polite bows in recognition of the condescension. But even if the war had not disclosed to the United States its own military capaciti
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
he foregoing resolutions were passed at the time in secret session: Yeas.--Messrs. Alderson, Armstrong, Ball, Christian of Augusta, Coghill, Douglas, Frazier, Garnett, Garrison, Hunter, Keen, Lewis, Nash, Neeson, Newlon, Newman of Mason, Newman of Madison, Stevenson, Spitler, Tayloe, Taylor and Thomas--22. Nays.--Messrs. Bales, Bruce, Christian of Middlesex, Collier, Dickinson, Dulaney, Graham, Guy, Hart, Jones, Logan, Lynch, Quesenberry, Saunders, Wiley and Witten--16. Admiral Buchanan appearing in the hall, on motion, the chair was vacated for ten minutes, in order to give the members of the Senate an opportunity to be introduced to him. When the President resumed the chair, the order of the day, being the Senate bill imposing taxes for the support of Government, was taken up and amended, and discussed till the hour of adjournment. Evening session. The entire evening session was taken up in perfecting the bills imposing taxes for the current year.
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