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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mrs. Pickens. (search)
is a great deal yet to be done after the Peace Congress makes a beginning, should it do so; and the result is anything but certain. Relative to the disposition of Congress, little has transpired during the week. From the Northern side the voice of coercion has been strong, and two Southern Representatives--Senator Johnson, of Tennessee, and Mr. Winter Davis, of Maryland,--have, like traitors as they are, re-echoed it in the most decided manner. The former has been skinned alive by Mr. Wigfall, of Texas, for his treachery. The papers afford but a poor idea of the dreadful and well-merited punishment he received. Yet, a very remarkable speech of the week was that of Mr. Kellogg, of Illinois, who represents Mr. Lincoln's district. It was highly conservative, and was, perhaps, unexceptionable, as we hear, save for the deduction of ultimate resort to coercion, from his declaration that "the Union must and shall be preserved. " He might have only intended this as consistent w
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a Female dragoon. (search)
istrict, and not for the whole State. Cries of"order! order!" burst from the Republican side. Great noise and confusion. Kunkel wanted Davis to begin the coercion policy then and there; but Winter seemed indisposed to any such rashness. Wigfall's excoriation of Andy Johnson was terrified. Johnson bore it with patient meekness — going out occasionally for refreshment, or for an interview with some Republican, and busying himself in taking notes when he returned. Wigfall would wait untWigfall would wait until he resumed his seat — then would come those scathing personalities with which the speech abounded. A member of the Virginia Senate tells me that he ventured yesterday to stop and look at the cannon posted near the City Hall. The soldier on guard came up and told him to pass On as orders had been given to allow no one to loiter about there. A distinguished politician of your city, who is now here, says that the Virginia Convention will equalize taxation, alter the basis of represen