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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
port of the Committee appointed to visit Washington. Mr. Scott, of Fauquier took the floor. In the course of his remarkas concerned, he meant to make good the declaration. Mr. Scott was here interrupted by a suggestion of the necessity of econd resolution, to go at once into secret session. Mr. Scott resumed his remarks, reviewing his position that the bodyermined on by the people at the polls, I cannot see, said Mr. Scott, why we should resolve ourselves into secret session. He not permit debate upon the whole question at issue. Mr. Scott claimed that he had strictly confined himself to the quesclose the whole object of going into secret session. Mr. Scott went on with his remarks. He thought the alternative prortunity for a free comparison of views. He appealed to Messrs. Scott and Baldwin to withdraw their objections. Mr. Macfis mind. The motion to adjourn was not renewed. Mr. Scott, of Powhatan, favored the motion to go into secret sessio
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tle rest, and I make this letter no longer to-night, only to say, the mails are stopped, the trains are stopped, and so is the telegraph, else I would have given you the news at the first fire. "The Lord reigns, let the people tremble." Virginius. Charleston, April 13, 1861. The proudest day of my life. Too excited, too stated to write you any other than hastily and, I fear, incoherently. Sumter is ours; we have conquered it, not by cheat, deception, a la Lincoln, a la Scott, but by the chivalry, the undaunted courage of South Carolinian. I left you last night at 12 o'clock. Nothing occurred after that hour until daybreak this morning, when our batteries belched forth again their iron contents, almost every shot and shell taking effect. Anderson answered all in a determined style. About 9 o'clock, a shell from Stevens' battery set the fort on fire in the southwest corner. Anderson kept up his fire, although completely enveloped in thick black smoke. At
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Will Kerosene explode? (search)
A proposition. --A telegraphic dispatch from Montgomery says that Gen. Reseau and Col. Ben. McCulloch propose to the President and Cabinet of the Confederate States to proceed as soon as possible to Washington with a force of 25,000 men, who will meet there according to a concerted plan, and take Winfield Scott and Lincoln prisoners. Col. McCulloch has already 10,000 men with arms and hearts sufficient.