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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
From Washington.[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Jan. 23, 1861
Clemens, of Virginia, has immortalized himself by a speech which received the approbation of the Republicans and the execrations of his colleagues.
It affords a strange, bitter joy to think that the trying times are bringing to light the true characters of men. -- Virginia is being sold into abolition by the selfishness of politicians, and they are showing the cloven hoof too plainly for the people over to forget.
Be sure their sins will be remembered against them "in that morning."
Malters are coming to a partly pass here, when a gentleman no longer dares to express in public meeting his hatred of Black Republican principles.
He is at once proscribed by the Administration, and by the mass of the people, who swear by the party in power, no matter what that party may be. A viler abolition hole than Washington does not exist.
A California member tells me that his slaves have been more