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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Congressional debate, Monday. (search)
yesterday we owned." In the name of the Democracy of sixteen States of the Union, I protest against the arrangement of this Committee. My motives may be misinterpreted now. Be it so. Time will, in a little while, vindicate them. Mr. McClelland said that secession opened a troublous future. He did not believe our government could be dissolved by the action of one of its constituent parts. Bound together, as we are, by a common language and religion, and common mountains and rivershat the Northwest Democracy has been excluded from the Committee, and he urged this as the reasan why he should be excused. He thanked Mr. Hawkins from his heart for the motives which prompted this generous manifestation. Nevertheless, he (Mr. McClelland,) could not agree that Mr. Hawkins should be excused from serving on the Committee. He was amazed that the entire Democracy from the North should be excluded from representation on the Committee. He could not believe the South would now
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Army News (search)
From Washington. Washington, Dec. 11. --The Democrats from the Northwest have had several conferences relative to the present condition of political affairs. They generally adopt the positions set forth yesterday in the speeches of Vallandigham and McClelland — that the Union cannot be dissolved peaceably, and that the Northwest will under no circumstances consent to be cut off from the Gulf of Mexico and city of New York, and that the Federal Government, whatever may be its faults, is of inestimable value. The leading idea here is a central government, embracing the middle, Western, and border slave States. Lieut, Gen. Winfield Scott will arrive here to-morrow. [Second Dispatch.] Secretary Toucey was to-day requested by the President to act as Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to his duties in the Navy Department, until Hon. Howell Cobb's successor is appointed. Mr. Cobb took formal leave of the President to-day, and will leave the city to-m