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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Remarks of Mr. Collier, in the Virginia Senate. (search)
Remarks of Mr. Collier, in the Virginia Senate. The following are the remarks made by Mr. Collier, in the Senate, on Saturday, in support of his resolution inserted in the Dispatch on Friday: Mr. President: A discussion of the resolution might properly include the whole conduct of the Confederate civil administration and the operations of the army. The civil administration has been so signal a failure, and is so dead in the popular affection, that I shall forbear to drag the lifeleMr. Collier, in the Senate, on Saturday, in support of his resolution inserted in the Dispatch on Friday: Mr. President: A discussion of the resolution might properly include the whole conduct of the Confederate civil administration and the operations of the army. The civil administration has been so signal a failure, and is so dead in the popular affection, that I shall forbear to drag the lifeless Hector around the walls of our Troy. The chief characteristic of that administration is, that it has separated the Government from the people, and has made a more vigorous and effective war on the resources of the country than it has made on the public enemy. I do not believe that such was the design of the men in authority. I do not doubt their patriotism or earnest desire to succeed. Such has been the effect of the public measures, to the deplorable extent seen in the well-known fact t