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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sent off. (search)
Congressional. Washington, Jan. 23. --House.--The report of the Committee of Thirty-Three was taken up. Mr. Etheridge, of Tenn., argued that there is no reason for disunion. He did not apprehend danger from Republican rule. His speech was an eloquent one for the Union. Mr. Lovejoy, of III., made a strong coercion and anti-compromise speech. The Speaker communicated the letters of withdrawal of the Georgia delegation. Mr. Montgomery, of Pa., proposed that every member of the House resign, and thus bring the question directly home before the people on their re-election. Mr. McPherson, (Rep.)of Pa., characterized the Southern movement as a conspiracy, diabolical in its character, originating from disappointed ambition and natural inequality. Mr. Winslow, of N. C., obtained the floor, and the House adjourned. Senate.--Mr. Iverson, of Georgia, was discharged, at his own request, from further serving on the Committee of Claims. A bill prov
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ssues between the North and the South. The Republican members in both committees rejected propositions acknowledging the right of property in slaves, or recommending the division of the Territories between the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States by a geographical line. In the Senate, the propositions commonly known as Mr. Crittenden's were voted against by every Republican Senator; and the House, on a vote by yeas and nays, refused to consider certain propositions moved by Mr. Etheridge, which were even less favorable to the South than Mr. Crittenden's. A resolution, giving a pledge to sustain the President in the use of force against seceding States, was adopted in the House of Representatives by a large majority; and in the Senate, every Republican voted to substitute for Mr. Crittenden's propositions, resolutions offered by Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, declaring that no new concessions, guarantees, or amendments to the Constitution, were necessary; that the dema
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' State-rights ticket.-- Peachy R. Grattan, P. H. Aylett, Geo. W. Randolph. (search)
r to bring on a war, (which is not likely,) or to wait patiently till Democrats and Whigs have given up the last hope of saving the country, and then save it themselves. Depend upon it, they are not going to allow Mr. Crittenden, or Mr. Anybody else to share the glory of this performance. It is questionable whether they know exactly what will save the country.--My judgment is that they will fix upon the restoration of the Missouri Compromise, as the grand cure all. But nous aerrons. Etheridge came out in a speech equal to Wade's, or any other man's of the coercion stripe. When one wants to get in Lincoln's Cabinet one must not do things by halves.--One should go the entire swine. Then, if one falls to get one's place in Lincoln's Cabinet, how will one feel? Ha! there's the rub! Brown, the editor of the Constitution is doing yeoman service for the South. He says that in the Southern Confederacy he will have the consolation of never seeing an abolitionist except when han
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
tan still some work will find for idle hands to do." Is that the way the old anying runs? Its truth was illustrated in the House on yesterday, as the telegraph, doubtless, has already told you. I refer to the Dunn-Rust affair. They say Dunn will fight. All the Western men will fight, none of the Northern. Rast, you know, is as good as ever stuck axe in a tree. Last night it was reported that Dunn had declined to receive a challenge. The Tribune and Times are glorifying Clemon and Etheridge. Of course, They also glorified John Brown. The former paper says there is to be no civil war, only a blockade of Southern harbors, a re-capturing of Southern ports, and a general enforcement of the laws. What fiddle-foddle ! A private dispatch is said to have reached here yesterday evening, stating that the Kentucky Legislature, by a decided majority, had refused to call a Convention. Hicks swears that if the members of the Maryland Legislature attempt to call a Convention ov
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
[special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.]Suppression of "Incendiary" documents Washington Jan. 29. --Messrs. Dejarnette and Edmondson, of Virginia, hearing that incendiary documents were being circulated through Virginia, by the Clerks of the Census Bureau, by order of John P. Kennedy, Superintendent, called this morning to ascertain if it was so. Kennedy admitted that they had been sent by his order — such of them as were fit; but the clerks were not employed in that work during office hours. Messrs. Dejarnette and Edmondson told him if he sent any to their Districts they would hold him personally responsible, and he promised not to send any. The speeches sent by Kennedy were chiefly those of Clemens, of Virginia; Millson, of Virginia, and Etheridge, of Tenn. The National Intelligencer is printing a large extra edition of these speeches for Virginia circulation. Zed.
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], A lion's Love for a Black Tigress. (search)
Black Republican Espionage in Virginia. The telegraph announced yesterday morning that Mr. John P. Kennedy, of the Census Department, was engaged in distributing the speeches of Messrs. Clemens and Etheridge in Virginia, evidently to bear upon the elections about to take place. There was a mistake in the name of the gentleman. It was Mr. Jos. C. G. Kennedy who was engaged in this work — he and his clerks, in the hours of business of the Department. We now have a more remarkable specimen of the interest Mr. Kennedy takes in our affairs here in Virginia. The following note was addressed by him to one of the Assistant Marshals of this State, and we suppose has been addressed to others: Census Bureau, Washington City, Jan. 29th. Dear Sir: Will you have the kindness to inform me, without any delay, regarding the opinion of the people in your sub-division respecting secession, and what character of delegates you will send to the State Convention? Yours, &c., Jos
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
n Lynchburg, gives great satisfaction to Southern men here. But the Tribune says,"that patriots like Messrs. Botts, Barbour, Clemens, and Stuart, will have a clear majority of twenty-eight in the Convention." Heaven forbid! I could give the names of a party of traitors, where of "this correspondence" was one, who were busily engaged till a late hour last night in sending off the magnificent articles contributed by one "Bland," to the Richmond Ecuminer. Better antidote to the Clemens, Etheridge poison, there is none. Wealthy and working men of the North are here by scores, trying to hold water in a seive-- in other words, saving the Union--in still other words, crying over spilt milk. But the work of separating the South from the deadly malaria of free society goes steadily on. A higher power has this sublime object in hand. The more men try to stop it, the faster it proceeds. Rev Edward A. Pollard, author of "Black Diamonds," lectures here on Friday night.--His theme
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
n of spirit in the State. I have heard already of several families, some of them wealthy, who are preparing to leave. The Peace Congress is not dissolved, as was reported last night. Southern members are still deluded with the belief that a compromise of some sort will be made, but I have it from a reliable source that the Republicans have abandoned all idea of compromise, and an anxious only to keep the Congress in session to the 4th of March. They have been assured by such men as Etheridge, that the border States want merely a pretext for staying in, and they think the calling of a National Convention will be pretext enough. It is rumored that Seward has resigned his place in Lincoln's Cabinet, but the rumor kicks confirmation. He is certainly disgusted at Lincoln's speeches. A letter has been received here from a gentleman who has been traveling with Lincoln. The writer says that so far from Lincoln's being a nose of wax in anybody's hands, (as was asserted to m
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fanny Fern on shopping. (search)
he Republicans of the Fourth Congressional District in regard to the course of their representative in Congress, Hon. Wm. Kellogg. The resolutions adopted declare that their principles are the same as before the election; express love for the Union, and declare that the Union must be maintained at all hazards. The fourth resolution says that we enter our decided protest against the resolutions offered by Hon. William Kellogg, our Representative in Congress, and we earnestly urge him to an unfaltering support of Republican principles as enunciated in the Chicago platform. A motion to amend this resolution by adding "that if he cannot do so it is his duty to re-sign," was lost by years 79, nays 88. Some of the delegates did not vote upon this motion. The fourth resolution was their adopted unanimously. Resolutions complimentary to Senator Johnson and Representatives Etheridge, Clemens and Davis, and Gov. Hicks, were then adopted amidst the wildest enthusiasm.
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Incendiary language. (search)
r advertising his wife. Mr. P. Crawford was run over and killed by the cars, at Bristol, Tenn., last Wednesday. The Virginians in Davidson county, Tenn., are organizing a company to march to the defence of their native State. The Mobile papers report the arrival there of Louisiana companies, on their way to Virginia. Alabama troops are also moving. The City Council of Nashville, Tenn., has appropriated $100,000 to arm the city and meet the exigencies of the times. Etheridge, of Tennessee, still holds on to the "Union." The papers denounce him as a traitor. Persons abroad should not be misled by dispatches from Wheeling, Va., about the sentiment of the Northwest. It is stated that the largest subscription to the "patriotic fund" in New York, was made by A. T. Stewart. The amount was $10,000. The New York police are daily engaged in seizing fire-arms, &c., intended for shipment to the South. The Warren Rifles reached Alexandria on Friday.
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