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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
is about to be appointed by Pennsylvania to meet the Virginia Commissioners in this city, and that ex-Governor Packer has consented to act as one. Before this commission starts for Washington, it is absolutely essential that the Legislature of Pennsylvania should comply with that portion of Gov. Curtin's Message and that part of Gov. Packer's valedictory, in which the repeal of all laws which, by implication, may be construed to interfere with the Fugitive Slave law is recommended. Gov. Seward has taken the initiative, with other prominent gentlemen, in getting up a grand Inauguration Ball, at which men of all sections can join, and dance "all hands round." Bills are being prepared by the Military and Naval Committees of the House, and by the Committee of Ways and Means, for immediately placing the country upon a war footing.--The President will be authorized to call for the enlistment of volunteers, and a considerable number of war steamers will be forth with ordered to b
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Foreign News by the North Briton. (search)
W. H. Seward. The Washington correspondent of the New York Express, in a tribute to the personal popularity of Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, even among the Republicans, says: "It was in the house of Col. Davis that Mr. Seward made the remarkable confession, about a year ago, that his own peculiar notions on the slavery question were maintained merely for political effect. So, at least, Col. Davis has frequently asserted, and without contradiction. It seems, therefore, thaMr. Seward made the remarkable confession, about a year ago, that his own peculiar notions on the slavery question were maintained merely for political effect. So, at least, Col. Davis has frequently asserted, and without contradiction. It seems, therefore, that we, the people, are about to fly at each other's throats like bull-dogs, merely to uphold a set of men who have mounted the negro not because they love him, but because, through him, they hope to dictate, from the high places of the Government, to the white man. This is 'Republicanism' with a vengeance." This is indeed "Republicanism," and, alas! the melancholy history of all Republics is, that not only the people have been sacrificed, but at last, the Republic itself, to gratify the am