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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Perils of peace. (search)
Yankee Threats — retaliation --There can be no doubt that the Yankee Government, if it be not restrained by fear, will institute a war of total extermination against the Confederate States, and that massacre will be added to pillage, in all its future operations. They already threaten to hang Messrs. Slidell and Mason, if we hang Corcoran and Cogswell, and they hope by this threat to accomplish the murder of our privateersmen without the risk of retaliation. That is a fearful mistake, and if pushed home, It may produce consequences at which the whole world will stand aghast. The people of the Confederate States admire Messrs. Slidell and Mason. They place a high value upon them for the services they have already rendered, and for the promise their lives afford of greater usefulness hereafter. But they will not purchase their safety by yielding one much of their just prerogative. If the privateersmen should be executed, they will retaliate, though it cost half a million of l
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Federal Congress. (search)
Lowe, to be admitted as an additional member from California, was referred to the same committee. A joint resolution, tendering the thanks of Congress to Capt. Wilkes for his arrest of the rebel emissaries, Mason and Slidell, was adopted. A resolution expelling John W. Reed, the member from the 5th District of Missouri, and now serving in the rebel army, was adopted. Resolutions requesting the President to order Messrs. Mason and Slidell to be treated in the same manner as Col. Corcoran and Col. Wood, prisoners in the hands of the rebels, are treated, were unanimously adopted, amid cheers from the spectators. The Secretary of War was requested to communicate what measures have been taken to ascertain who is responsible for the disaster at Ball's Bluff. Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution declaring that, in prosecuting the war, the Government has for its object the suppression of rebellion and the re-establishment of the Constitution and the laws
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
ey, 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 first time since he was wounded. He is impatient to rejoin his command. From Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 4. --A letter to the Democrat, from Somerset, on the Cumberland river, say
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
ers in peace but are civilians in war. We — that is, the "New York mess," consisting of Col. Corcoran and Lieut. Connolly, Sixty-ninth; Capt. Farrish, Seventy- ninth; Capt. Downey, Eleventh; Capame predicament had it not been for the kindness of Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, who visited Col. Corcoran, and, seeing us without a bed to sleep on, sent us cots, mattresses, pillows, &c., and, without being solicited, lent Col. Corcoran some money, which he, with his usual benevolence, distributed among us. The Bishop told the Colonel to draw on him for whatever money he wanted. But we were ned thus to be happy very long. On the 19th inst. the officer who had charge of us informed Col. Corcoran that in consequence of the conviction of Smith, the privateer's man, in Philadelphia, Generanfinement, with the positive assurance that if Smith was executed he would be also. To this Col. Corcoran replied, "Well, sir, I am ready; when I engaged in this war I made up my mind to sacrifice m
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
on in this city to confine no civilian who is not regularly committed by a magistrate, and no soldier except a deserter, or those arrested by patrols, without special orders from headquarters, This will be the means of checking a very serious abuse The New exchange of prisoners. Thirty-seven rebel prisoners of the 250 recently released having arrived at Norfolk, a corresponding number of our own prisoners have been forwarded North by the rebel authorities. It is understood that Col. Corcoran and the other officers designated as hostages for the safety of the pirates will not be released except in exchange for the pirates. Congressional proceedings. In the Senate, on the 11th inst., very little of interest transpired. The following proceedings of the House on the negro question will be found interesting: In the House another bill to forfeit the property and slaves of rebels was presented by Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. A r
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Suit against the Governor of Georgia. (search)
The release of Col. Corcoran. --A New York letter, of a recent date, says: Judge Dey, of this city, who went on to Washington to help intercede with the powers that be for Col. Corcoran, telegraphed this afternoon that they have had an interview with the President, Secretary of State, and Gen. McClellan, and that the result is such as to justify the expectation that their wish will be gratified at an early day. There are difficulties of a serious character still in the way, but it iCol. Corcoran, telegraphed this afternoon that they have had an interview with the President, Secretary of State, and Gen. McClellan, and that the result is such as to justify the expectation that their wish will be gratified at an early day. There are difficulties of a serious character still in the way, but it is thought they can be overcome without making any concessions to the rebels. One of these difficulties is, that the rebels insist upon being addressed as the "Government of the Confederate States," and that in the necessary official papers to be exchanged. Jeff. Davis shall be styled "President." Mr. Seward, while determined that the rebels shall not be gratified in this particular, is ready to offer them informally such an exchange as will probably move them to abandon the conditions upon wh
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
idently for the purpose of escorting some 600 or 800 rebel recruits, with their baggage, provision, &c., from Lexington to Price's army. From Washington — a British officer's Services offered, &C. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, under date of the 16th inst., telegraphs the following items: Col. Stein back, of the British army, has arrived in the city, and has offered his services to the Government. Much uneasiness is felt in relation to the fate of Col. Corcoran and his fellow-prisoners in Charleston jail, which is thought to have been consumed in the configuration there. Senator Wilson, chairman of the Senate Military Committee, will to-morrow bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the resolution offered by him a few days ago and referred to the committee. The bill has been drawn with great care, and provides for the appointment of commissioners to ascertain the value of the slaves, an
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wanted to Hire-- (search)
Removal of Yankee prisoners. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 1. --All the Yankee prisoners from Charleston, including Col. Corcoran, arrived here this afternoon in a special train. They were met at the depot by the Rebel Guard of this city and conducted to jail.
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Nashville. (search)
delusion than this reliance upon Irish and French aid. The last attempt at a rebellion in Ireland, in which "Meagher of the Sword" figured so extensively was a complete flash in the pan. Great Britain disdained to award to any of the leaders that palm of martyrdom which they seemed to covet. She opened her broad palm, and addressed these patriots in the sentiment of Uncle Toby to the fly, "Go, poor devil, there is room enough in the world for me and thee." The local constabulary, of, which Corcoran was once a member, could have easily snuffed out that rebellion, if it had even reached the blaze of a fallow candle. But it never did; no life was lost on either side. The Government, grown wise by experience, exhibited a humanity to the conspirators which puts to shame the bloodthirstiness of the Lincoln despotism; not a drop of blood was shed, and Meagher lived to adorn New York with his illustrious presence and marry a ion of the house of Sands's Sarsaparilla. Whilst the British
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
fter his arrival in that city: Mr. Ely responded in a conversational tone. He remarked that between himself and Col. Corcoran the strongest bonds of friendship existed. No one could doubt for a moment the Colonel's bravery or the selfsacrificvinced by him in his present trying condition. He regretted to say that he (Mr. Ely) was the first man who drew for Colonel Corcoran as a hostage for Smith; and he ventured to say that if there was any hanging to be done the Colonel would be the fir) My prison hours have been relieved of much of their redium by the society of brave soldiers from New York. (Applause) Corcoran, who led the intrepid 69th to noble deeds at Manassas, went with me to Richmond, and there remained, for two months or mon. (Cheers) Wood, of your sister city of Brooklyn, was my companion, until dragged to a fellon's cell, to be held like Corcoran, subject to the treatment awarded the rebel pirates. To the patient and herofo endurance of these distinguished off
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