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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Amendment to the Constitution. (search)
Amendment to the Constitution. --Governor Morgan, of New York, on Thursday transmitted to the Legislature of that State the joint resolution adopted by Congress at its late session, proposing to the several State Legislatures an article amendatory to the Constitution, providing that no amendment shall be made thereafter which shall give to Congress power to abolish or interfere with the institution of slavery in any State within which it may exist. In transmitting the joint resolution, Gov. Morgan makes an earnest appeal to the Legislature to adopt it. The proposed amendment, he says, commends itself to the judgment, while it conforms to the sentiment, of the people of New York, who have always adhered to the doctrine of the right of the States respectively to control their domestic institutions in such manner as they may judge most conducive to their prosperity and happiness. He further thinks that the Border States would accept such amendment to the Constitution as the
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Canada's mails. (search)
A duel. --A difficulty occurred this morning, at Fort McRae, between St. Clair Morgan, whose arrival here we noticed a few days since, and an officer in Capt. O'Hara's company, whose name we have not heard, which resulted in a duel, in which Morgan, it is thought, was mortally wounded, the ball entering the lower part of the abdomen and passing through the body.-- Pensacola (Fla.) Observer, 14th inst. A duel. --A difficulty occurred this morning, at Fort McRae, between St. Clair Morgan, whose arrival here we noticed a few days since, and an officer in Capt. O'Hara's company, whose name we have not heard, which resulted in a duel, in which Morgan, it is thought, was mortally wounded, the ball entering the lower part of the abdomen and passing through the body.-- Pensacola (Fla.) Observer, 14th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The duel near Pensacola. (search)
duel near Pensacola. --The fact of a duel at Fort McRae, Fla., between St. Clair Morgan, of Charleston, S. C., and a young Alabamian, named Storrs, late a midshipr of comrades, were off in a boat on a reconnoitering party near Fort Pickens. Morgan, full of reckless daring, proposed that they should land just under the walls oem to almost certain capture, and the majority of the party sided with him. But Morgan, hot tempered and impatient, reproached Storrs with timidity.--A few words passd the boat put back to the main land. When they had disembarked Storrs said to Morgan that he had intimated a doubt of his courage, and as they had rifles, and the moon was shining brightly, he could prove it. Morgan responded to this proposition with alacrity. Twenty steps were paced off, and at the first fire Morgan fell dangeMorgan fell dangerously wounded, the heavy ball of the Sharpe's rifle having entered his right groin and ranged through and out of the back part of the thigh. An unfortunate affair,
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Pensacola duel. (search)
The Pensacola duel. --St. Clair Morgan, so desperately wounded a few days ago, in a duel with Thomas Storrs, of Alabama, is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and a graduate at West Point, though till recently a practising lawyer in the former city. He fired in the air, but his antagonist, taking deliberate aim with his Sharp's rifle, wounded him in the groin.