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The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Christmas coming. (search)
Christmas coming. --More than the usual number of drunken men were arrested by the police yesterday. It is evident that a portion of this community already "feel Christmas in their bones." Christmas coming. --More than the usual number of drunken men were arrested by the police yesterday. It is evident that a portion of this community already "feel Christmas in their bones."
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Latest from Washington by mail. (search)
By Johnson's independent agency.from Washington. Washington, December 15. --The disarming of the black troops in Mississippi arises, probably, from the fear of trouble, now that the holidays are so rapidly approaching. It is a fact that women and children are now in the Northern States whose homes are in the South, but prefer to remain where they are until the dreaded Christmas times have passed. The fears of trouble are stronger in Mississippi than in any other State, though in certain portions of Alabama serious misgivings exist. When General Canby mustered out the blacks in Louisiana recently, he ordered them all to be disarmed; and this action, I am informed, was based almost solely on the fear that a collision might occur should the negroes be permitted to retain their arms. What Governor Humphrey has done in Mississippi is no more than General Canby has done, though in the one case it was by Government action and in the other by States. There is no