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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
lent, that it can be cured only by bloodletting. The Republicans, fresh from a visit to their constituents, confirm this opinion. They are more defiant than ever. Doolittle, in his speech in the Senate yesterday, haughtily and insultingly told the Southern Senators that it was idle to talk about amending the Constitution, for they (the Republicans) intended to amend it to suit themselves. This is what Seward is after in his proposition to admit all the Territories at once as States. Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Utah will become Northern States, adding twelve to the Republican strength in the Senate. Very soon they will have the two-thirds requisite to amend the Constitution, and reconstruct the Supreme Court according to their own notions. Meantime, the fact of Anderson's holding South Carolina in check, will stiffen the Republican neck. They foresee that Fort Monroe will do as much for Virginia. With the navy they will blockade all our ports. Of a cert
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of Commodore Platt. (search)
Abolition Schemes developed. St. Louis, Dec. 29. --The Republican this morning announces the reception of a letter from Chicago, dated on the 13th December, and addressed to Major Bell, Commandant of the U. S. Arsenal here, giving an account of a secret meeting of ten persons, who developed a plan to take possession of the Arsenal at St. Louis, and Jefferson Barracks, and remove all the property therein to Kansas. They reported that $5,000 worth of arms had been sent to Montgomery, and that $10,000 worth were deposited with the Committee in St. Louis. They expected the assistance of a large number of Germans residing in the neighborhood, most of whom were workmen in the Arsenal. One hundred men were to be sent from Chicago, together with many others having great familiarity with the internal arrangements of the Arsenal.