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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
nnounced in a Richmond paper. From this sketch of the day's dispatches, and from the letters of our correspondents, (elsewhere printed) the reader can get all the light available to the public in regard to the great contest before Richmond. But the manner in which information has been conveyed, and the hesitancy on all sides about publication, is not calculated to inspire a lively faith in any statement. Proceedings in the Yankee Senate. In the Yankee Senate, on Monday, Mr. Willey moved to take up the bill for the admission of West Virginia, and Mr. Trumbull called the yeas and nays thereon, of a test vote. The Senate refused to take up the bill — yeas 17, nays 18. Mr. Chandler submitted the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to furnish for the use of the Senate all orders of the Executive to Major-Gen. Geo. B. McClellan relative to the advance of the Army of the Potomac upon Richmond, and all the correspondence between the said G
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. Floyd's command. (search)
Poor Devils. --The "Union" inhabitants of the new State of Western Virginia are in a bad way. The "new State" can't get into the "glorious Union" with slavery. One of the traitors and bogus representatives thus begs his nigger loving friends in the Federal Congress for mercy: Mr. Willey, (Union,) of Virginia, proposed to amend the bill so as to obviate the objection of the Senator from Vermont, enabling the State to be admitted when it had ratified a Constitution, republican in form, with a fundamental condition that all children born after the 4th of July shall be free. In regard to Mr. Sumner's amendment, he said that most of the slaves now remaining in Western Virginia are old family slaves, and gradual emancipation would be better for the interests of the State. The bill in effect proposes the admission of a new free State. The God of Nature ordained that Western Virginia should be a free State, and there was probably not eight thousand slaver there to-day. Really t