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The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
ation, is its general change, since the session opened, in temper and spirit toward the war.--This is easily illustrated. In the second week of the session, Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky submitted the following resolution: "Resolved, That as our country and the very existence of the best Government ever instituted by man, ise whole ground of the necessity of the war, to the exclusion of every other policy. Sixty-four of the party answered "no" on the test vote. A month afterwards, Mr. Smith again proposed a resolution, which was of exactly the same import. It read as follows: "Whereas, A most desperate, wicked and bloody rebellion exists in tht, being a crime where the question is between loyalty and treason." Both of these were unanimously adopted, though there had been sixty-four votes against or Smith's December resolutions, which were of precisely the same scoops. Thus the original audacity of the party against the administration has gradually subsided, so far