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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The spirit of the South. (search)
n adopting rules for the House, as reported by the committee, without debats, which was agreed to. The remainder of the day was taken up by a lengthy and spirited debate on the bills introduced by Mr. Miles, of S. C., on the part of the Military Committee, and Mr. Foote, of Tenn., providing for the destruction of cotton and tobacco, and other property useful to the enemy, by our military commanders, and compensation to those whose property was thus destroyed. Messrs. Miles, Conrad, Foots, Curry, Baldvin, Smith of Va., Boyes, Pryor, Dargan, Beiakall, Davis, Russell, and Wright of Ga., participated in the debate. Mr. Curry said, if there be a man, or a woman, in Alabama, who is not willing himself to put the torch to every lock of cotton, rather than it should fall into the hands of the enemy, he hoped the Yankees might burn him. He did not approve of destroying property unnecessarily, and moved to amend the bill by substituting for the words "about to fail into the hands