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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Facts and rumors from Washington. (search)
on. Col. Huger, stationed at Baltimore, (Fort McHenry,) for the defence of the Harbor, and one of the best U. S. Ordnance officers, has resigned his commission in the army. A dispatch just received from Richmond, states that a body of twenty-five hundred men will leave this evening for the purpose of seizing Harper's Ferry. The Republican officials here are greatly exasperated at the alleged bad conduct of Major Anderson, and are inclined to endorse the Courier article. Gen. Scott, it is said, and re-said, will resign, if Virginia leaves the Union; but the report is without the least foundation. He is daily at his post, and hard at work. George Ashmun, it is reported here, is about to be sent to Canada as a confidential agent of the Administration. No orders have as yet been issued for the blockade of Southern ports, or to stop the mails in the revolutionary States. Fort Monroe, as well as Fort Washington, Va. are to receive an increase of Garrison.
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Facts and rumors from Washington. (search)
intended to do, get drunk. You can see now how much honor there is in Lincoln and his party. He has violated a positive pledge to our Government, in reinforcing Pickens, and puts it on the plea that everything is honorable in war. The simple truth is, the whole Northern body are a deluded fanatical people, and, for the most part, lack in a great degree, in an eminent degree, that open, candid and honest dealing that obtains amongst gentlemen. I see it stated in the Enquirer that Gen. Scott is about to resign. He better had. I think it likely now that the war will be transferred from our shores to your border.--I shall be disappointed if you do not see the worst struggle ever witnessed in this country, in less than sixty days, on the banks of the Potomac. You may depend upon it, that your Convention would be infinitely better employed in making active preparations for a hasty and desperate conflict, than making long-winded speeches on trifling amendments. I am con