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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
More resignation — Capture. St. Louis, June 12. --A Santa Fe letter says that Capt. Maury, of Virginia, Capts. Lindsay and Stephens, and Major Sibley, H. S. A., have resigned. It is also intimated that Col. Grayson and Major Reynolds will soon follow. The Arisoca Times says that the Texsas have seized a heavy armed train on its way to the forts.
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cotton loan. (search)
The cotton loan. --The Augusta Chronicle, of the 13th, says: Vice. President Stephens addressed the people of Wilkes, at Washington, last Saturday, on the subject of the crop loan. His speech is said to have been one of the best of his life, and was received with unbounded enthusiasm. Two thousand bales of cotton were subscribed on the spot, and the subscription will be increased to at least four thousand.--Old Wilkes is proverbial for her patriotism, and she will never dishonor the memory of her revolutionary heroes. All she has, of men and money, are at the service of the Confederate Government.
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ordnance office. June 14th, 1861. (search)
Principle and interest. Hon. A. H. Stephens remarks in his late speech at Atlanta, that this war is against the whole principle upon which the American Revolution was fought, and that Massachusetts, then represented by the patriot Hancock, now occupies towards us the same relation that England did to all in the Revolution. This is all true; but principle is nothing to Massachusetts when interest is concerned.--This war is prompted by the most sordid, mercenary, selfish considerations that ever influenced the conduct of nations. The highwayman who assails a man upon the road and demands his money or his life, is not more a murderer for gold than the manufacturers and merchants who are directing this war upon the South. What care they for the rights of the States or the principles of the Constitution, so long as their commerce is in danger and their customers in revolt? This demand upon the South is simply that of the highwayman--"Your money or your life!" Send us your cott
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
Cotton Subscriptions to the Confederate States loan. The Nashville American has been shown a letter from a gentleman of Columbus, Miss., to his relatives in Nashville, in which he says "cotton is being everywhere eagerly subscribed to the Confederate States Loan, by almost every planter in that portion of Mississippi, in amounts from twenty-five to four hundred bales." In Wilkes and Warren counties, in this State, where Vice-President Stephens has addressed the people, some six thousand bales have been subscribed, and from every section of the State we hear most gratifying accounts of the spirit and liberality of the planters in coming forward with their crops in support of the Confederacy. In Bibb county Col. Leonidas Jordan alone subscribed one thousand bales. We hear of similar patriotic action on the part of the planters in all the Cotton States. The citizens of Marengo county, Alabama, met at the county site recently, and subscribed 3,500 bales of cotton for the
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Census matters. (search)
Secession and Unionism in Georgia. Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 14. --Speeches are made nightly in this place by Senator Toombs, Thos. R. Cobb, and others, in favor of secession. Hon. Messrs. Stephens and Johnson, and others, are opposed. The friends of Iverson, in the Georgia Legislature, are in favor of Hon. Howell Cobb for U. S. Senator. Nothing of interest has transpired in Milledgeville to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
— to warm and not chill this sympathy of our Southern sisters. Mr. President, I have said stop for a day — shut up for a day the port of Charleston, and the ships now loading with the produce of our country would rot before they would go to sea. If an Ordinance is passed they will have no papers — they are stopped from departing. Pass your Ordinance immediately, and what is the consequence? I say, sir, if we were stopped a single day — if we were stopped two days--the eloquence of Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, would be but as a penny whistle compared with the astounding consequences among ourselves. The stoppage of postal arrangements is an argument which will make a man silent, and this would be but the beginning. The port of Charleston stopped! postal arrangements stopped! people unrequited and their ships rotting at our docks, will lead to the stoppage of all ordinary transactions. Is there any argument that can obviate this result? Look at our sister States--they will co
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
ndence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Dec. 21, 1860. South Carolina's secession adds little to the outward excitement of the city. The day is brilliant, mild as Spring, and matters go on much as usual. But there is hardly a thinking man who does not feel that the fate of the Union is irrevocably sealed, and a Southern Confederacy inevitable. Reconstructionists and Middle Confederacy men have little to hope from the drift of the Revolution, as will appear in the next ten days. Stephens, of Georgia, was expected here this morning, and may be here now. He will be serenaded, &c., by the Union men. He will lend his influence to effect a compromise in the Senate Committee of Thirteen. As to the Committee of Thirty-three, it has fallen into contempt. Southern men tell me the Republicans have been wondrous conciliatory for the last day or two. But they concede nothing; and, judging from the following extract from last night's Tribune, there is little reason to think that
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession Movement at the South. (search)
obtain, leads me to believe that the separate secessionists will elect seventy-five delegates out of one hundred. The ordinance will probably be passed on the 9th day of January. It is thought that Mississippi will secede on the same day. There is no truth in the reports of large Union gains in Georgia. On the contrary, it is thought by well-informed men in that State that the rejection by the Republican Senators of Mr. Toombs' proposition for constitutional amendments, will induce Mr. Stephens to declare in favor of immediate secession. Gov. Moore issued a proclamation to-day, convening the Legislature of Alabama, to provide, by State laws, for any emergency that may arise from the action of the Convention. The Legislature will assemble on the 14th of January. The Convention meets on the 7th. Mobile, Dec. 21.--The election for delegates to the State Convention, took place to-day.--The separate State Secession ticket in this city is elected by a thousand majority.
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fort Moultrie. (search)
it was intended to change the Constitution into a pro-slavery instrument. Mr. Benjamin, of La. followed in reply.--In reference to the secession of South Carolina, he said the question of her independence would come before the Senate in a tangible shape on Monday. Mr. Brown said if slaves could not be recognized, the slave States would go out of the Union, for there would be no peace if they remained in it. Mr. Green said he was waiting an opportunity to introduce a bill for the admission of Pikes' Peak into the Union. Adjourned until Monday. House.--Mr. Stephens, of Washington Territory, pronounced false the statements in the Boston papers, that some of the brands of the Indian Fund defalcation had been contributed to the Breckinridge Central Committee during the late Presidential election. Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, owing to business engagements, was excused from serving on the Indian Fund Defalcation Investigating Committee. Adjourned until Monday.
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia. The report that Mr. Lincoln intended to call Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, to his Cabinet, is promptly and emphatically contradicted by the New York Tribune. That journal Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, to his Cabinet, is promptly and emphatically contradicted by the New York Tribune. That journal says: The statement is doubtless made on mere rumor. Without professing to have any special information on the subject, it seems to us altogether improbable. Mr. Stephens is a conditional secessioniMr. Stephens is a conditional secessionist, and from what we know of Mr.Lincoln's opinions of the right and propriety of any State setting the laws of the Federal Government at defiance, it seems altogether unlikely that he would call one t It was scarcely necessary to deny a rumor which assigned a conservative statesman like A. H. Stephens to a seat in Lincoln's Cabinet. One of the first of our public men in sagacity, farsightednessrehensiveness of intellectual grasp, and as pure and patriotic as he is wise and intelligent, Mr. Stephens will never be called to his counsels by such a man as Lincoln. "Birds of a feather flock toge
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