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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern Congress. (search)
e previous question. Mr. Vallandigham held that the amendment was out of order, inasmuch as that it changed the nature of business in the House. Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, requested Mr. Hickman to modify his resolution so as to include also cases of contested election, which request was declined. Mr. Richardson then asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the House to urge upon it the rejection of the resolution. After a brief colloquy between Messrs. Richardson and Colfax, which the Speaker interrupted with a peremptory call to order-- Mr. Burnett asked permission to propose an amendment to include within the restriction all questions looking to a peaceable settlement of our national difficulties. Objections were raised by Messrs. Washburne, Lovejoy, and several other Republican members. Ex-Governor Wickliffe, of Kentucky, then moved, in the name of his constituents, of his country, and of his God, to lay the resolutions on the table, and on th
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Not killed. (search)
s upon the lands of the farmers. Mr. Chase committed the indiscretion of recommending the imposition of a direct tax on land alone, and would have exempted the urban populations of the North from the extra burden. His plan does not please the rural classes of the North, and the following significant debate took place in the House on the 26th ult., Mr. Spalding, who is the immediate representative of Mr. Seward, leading off: The House then went into committee on the direct tax bill, Mr. Colfax in the chair. Mr. Spalding, of New York, obtained the floor, and in an elaborate speech urged the passage of the act as a matter of pressing necessity to the Government. Already Government loans bearing interest at six per cent, were found unsaleable, or could be disposed of only at 82 or 85 cents on the dollar; and it had become absolutely necessary to induce the capitalists to take loans, by the liberality of the rate of interest and by the ample guarantees of their ultimate repaym
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Florida improvements. (search)
Federal Exaggerations. --An inadvertent illustration of the style of Federal exaggeration occurs in the Indiana Register, edited by Hon. S. Colfax, member of the Federal Congress. The Register is defending General Fremont from the charge of not sending reinforcements to Mulligan at Lexington. It states that five thousand of Fremont's best armed and best equipped troops had been sent to Washington, and that only eight thousand were left at St. Louis, where it was confidently asserted Fremont had forty thousand under his command. How all this tallies with the Northern accounts of vast naval expeditions, embracing from twenty to one hundred thousand men, now fitting out in Northern cities for various points on the Southern coast, we do not profess to explain, except upon the ground that they are merely feints, intended to divert our Generals from the real hinge of the war — Manassa.
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
ipate all the staves in any military district in a state of insurrection against the National Government. Confiscation of a Southern vessel. New London, Ct., Dec. 2. --The bark Samuel Moxley, partly owned in Apalachicola, Fla., was seized to-day under the confiscation act by the collector at this port. The vessel had just arrived here, in ballast, from Sligo, Ireland. Retaliation in the case of Ex Minister Faulkner--condition of Gen. Lander. Washington, Dec. 4. --Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, who offered the resolution in the House yesterday requesting the President to impose the same imprisonment upon Mason and Slidell that the rebels have extended to Cols. Wood and Corcoran, will offer a similar resolution to imprison Col. Faulkner in a manner similar to that dealt out to Mr. Ely, when it shall be positively known that he is treated other than as an honorable prisoner of war. Brigadier-General Lander is still quite convalescent, and rode out this afternoon,
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
ll presented the resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, asking that Senators procure the repeal of the law allowing Judges of U. S. Courts to hold terms of the Court at Covington, Paducah, and Louisville. Referred. Mr. Powell also presented the resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, favoring the construction of a railroad connecting Kentucky with East Tennessee, and thus making a connection with the loyal men in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. Referred. House.--Mr. Colfax, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported a bill, which was passed, extending the provisions of the law of July last, which authorizes soldiers to send letters through the mails without prepayment of postage, to sailors and marines in actual service of the United States, under such regulations as the Post Office Department may prescribe. The postage to be paid by the recipients. Mr. Hickman, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a resolution, which was adopted, th
The Daily Dispatch: January 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac (search)
gnation of Cameron had scarcely reached us, before news is born to us of the resignation of other member of the Cabinet at Washington. It is now reported that Welles, Secretary of the Navy, and Smith, Secretary of the Interior, have followed the example of Cameron and throws their commissions. In other words, ill. Cameron, being fully convinced that the ship must sink, they have gathered up as much of her treasure as possible, and forsaken her. Their places will be filled it is said, by Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, and Mr. Holt, of Kentucky The report which reached us that Humphrey Marshall had cut up the Yankees is corf corroborated by intelligence from the North.-- Our informant states, that notwithstanding their newspaper accounts of a great vicar, over Gen. Marshall, that in Baltimore the fact is known that such was not the case, hu that as usual the Yankees were defeated with a very heavy loss. We further learn that five regiments we sent out to attack Gen. Price. Their
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
ation of Senator Bright, of Indiana, was then resumed, and Messrs. Sumner, Lane of Indiana. And Bright made interesting speeches to the subject, but without taking a few be paid on printed matter carried outside the mails, was taken up. Mr. Colfax advocated its passage, and stated that he believed over a million dollars would be realized, and if so, with the franking privilege abolished, and the California mails paid for out of the Treasury, as provided by law, the Post Office would be nearly if not quite self-supporting. Several amendments and a substitute offered by Mr. Colfax, were voted down, and finally the original bill being before the house for action, on motion of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, it was laid on the table by a vote of seventy-five against sixty-six, thus effectually disposing of the subject, and relieving the newspaper interest from the apprehension of a vast deal of annoyance, without any corresponding benefit to the Treasury. In the course of the debate
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan's plans. (search)
Gen. McClellan's plans. The reported communication of Gen. McClellan to Mr. Colfax, M. C., of Indiana, in which he explained to that person that his expectations of a speedy conclusion of the present contest are based upon the anticipated determination of the Southern volunteers to return to their homes at the expiration of their present term of enlistment, sheds some light upon the long and mysterious inaction of the Federal army on the Potomac. It is presumptuous in a civilian to hazardplaces are supplied by new levies, to hurl his trained legions upon our militia, and realize the long cherished project of "On to Richmond." This, indeed, is said to have been explicitly stated by General McClellan in his conversation with Mr. Colfax. He appears to have felt no shame about it, considering it, as we suppose it may be considered by military men, a perfectly fair advantage to take of an enemy. Our own Government, of course, will do all it can to baffle this last resort of th
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Five months with the rebels. (search)
t noon to-day, taking the right wing of the enemy's fortification, over which the Stars and Stripes are now floating. The opposing forces are now almost breast to breast, ready to open the work of death upon each other at any moment. A later dispatch, dated at Cincinnati, 17th instant, says Fort Donelson was taken on yesterday with 15,000 prisoners, including Generals Johnson, Buckner, and Pillow. The news was announced in the representative branch of Congress, in Washington, by Mr. Colfax, on yesterday, and he said he was authorized by Gen. McClellan to make the statement. Gen. Floyd escaped. The loss was great on both sides. A dispatch from St. Louis, on the 16th, says Gen. Halleck has received dispatches from Gen. Curtis, stating that Gen. Price's rear guard was overtaken in pursuit from Springfield. The rebels escaped, leaving their wagons and baggage. [Second Dispatch.] Norfolk, Feb. 18. --(Received at 10 o'clock P. M.)--The Northern papers, o
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
understand, goes with General McCook's division to take command in person on the Cumberland, where our forces will, by to-morrow, number 80,000 men. While he presses the enemy on the Cumberland with his tremendous force, their flank and rear are pressed by the heavy divisions under General Mitchell and General Nelson. Since writing the above, we learn that ten regiments now in the Ohio camps are ordered at once to the Cumberland. Washington, Feb. 17.--In the House, this morning, Mr. Colfax asked and readily obtained permission to make a statement relative to Fort Donelson, [profound silence.] He said that Gen. McClellan had authorized him to inform the House that he had just received a dispatch from Cairo informing him of the arrival of the gunboat Carondolet at that place this morning, bringing the news of the capture of Fort Donelson on yesterday by the land forces of the United States, with fifteen thousand prisoners, including Gen. A. Sidney Johnston and Gen. Buckne
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