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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Testimonial to a New York Colonel. (search)
ind any one whose information was reliable, and then only ascertained that the South Carolina Convention had organized and the small-pox broken out as an epidemic in Columbia. The night was one of anxiety and gloom, in spite of the conciliatory resolutions passed in the House in the morning. A South Carolina member thinks it not improbable that the Commissioners sent to his State from other Southern States may succeed in inducing her to postpone secession until early in January. Hon. Mr. Lamar telegraphs from Mississippi that separate State secession is certain. The same comes from a prominent citizen of Alabama. Wade's speech yesterday was listened to by an immense audience. He was violent as usual in regard to slavery, but took care to guard his position by saying that he spoke only for himself and not for the other Senators belonging to his party. He was very pompous in his manner, but his pomposity dwindled into pitiable embarrassment when Senator Powell, of Kentucky