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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], The English Harvest. (search)
Off to-day. --It is expected that a flag of truce will start to-day for Varina. If it does, it will carry away one hundred and twenty-five of the citizen prisoners for some time past confined here, also, Mrs. Bradford, wife of the Governor of Maryland, and Mr. Wood, of Washington, D. C., who came on specially to make some arrangements relative to the exchange or parole of all political or civil prisoners.
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
be said that there was no rebellion? (A voice--"That's the talk.") The President had the power to do as he had done, and if a precedent was wanted they would make this the precedent forever. So far from finding fault with Abraham Lincoln, he rather found fault with him that he had not suspended the habeas corpus, not by a dash of the pen, but by the rope round the necks of these traitors. A voice--"We'll hang them yet." Mr. Clay--"Yes, sir, the hanging of such men as Seymour and Wood would have saved thousands of honest lives." Mr. Clay--That is true philanthropy. (Applause and laughter.) Go to the battle-field and you find thousands of brave and generous men sinking into the grave through the action of this rebellion, and yet there is no cry about the Constitution being violated by the South. Life, liberty and property had been sacrificed, and yet these men are silent about it; but when we defend ourselves against these plotters and scoundrels, and seek to defend