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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
ess done to allow it to pass — it would have been defeated. Messrs. William C. Rives, and Summers, of Virginia, protested against the vote of that State being cast against the compromise, but were overruled by their secession colleagues, Messrs. Tyler, Seddon and Brokenbrough, who voted throughout with the most uncompromising of the Republicans. They being a majority of the delegation cast the vote of the State, and undoubtedly cast it in opposition to what they knew to be the popular sen, and Mr. Chief Justice Tancy will administer the oath of office. He was appointed in March, 1836, by General Jackson, who had previously appointed him Secretary of the Treasury in 1833, but the Senate had refused to confirm the appointment. It has consequently been his privilege to adminster the oath of office to Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, and on Monday next, (Deo Volente,) he will administer it to Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrived. (search)
Arrived. --Ex-President John Tyler and Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Virginia members of the Peace Congress recently sitting in Washington, have arrived in this city and taken rooms at the Exchange Hotel.
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Return of the Commissioners — serenade and speeches. As soon as it became known, yesterday evening, that Ex-President Tyler and Hon. James A. Seddon had returned from Washington, arrangements were made for giving them a serenade; and accordingly, between eight and nine o'clock, the First Regiment Band appeared in front of the Exchange Hotel, where a crowd of thousands had assembled, and played "Sweet Home." and other appropriate airs. Mr. Tyler, responding to the call of the multitude, caMr. Tyler, responding to the call of the multitude, came forward and made a speech, in which he said their mission had resulted in nothing which could give any hope to the South. The report adopted by the Conference was a miserable, rickety affair, which afforded no guarantees of safety or security, and was not worthy of acceptance. Mr. Seddon next addressed the throng. He gave the report of the Peace Conference a most thorough sifting, and denounced it as a delusion and a sham — an insult and an offence to the South. Yet he thought if the