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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The ancient boundaries of Virginia. (search)
unmistakable "chivalric" air, gets the floor. He is not an eloquent speaker, but he makes up in fluency and defiant boldness what he lacks in grace. His first sentence fixes everybody's attention. "I indorse every word the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Long, has uttered, and will stand by and defend it for weal or woe" "Ab, ha! he's got one manly backer, at least," is the involuntary exclamation one hears on every side. Stepping out into the aisle, and moving defiantly down toward the Adminisw," says Mr. Wood, assuming, like Harris, the defiant role, "now, sir, I endorse every word of that. If you are going to expel him for it, you may as well expel me too." And he ephorates his desire to be made a martyrs. It isn't long, till the matter strikes him as being more serious, and he make occasion to change" mind. Some questions arising as to what Mr. Long did say, Mr. Colfax proposes to postpone the discussion till the Globe Appears with the official report. --Everybody agrees.