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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
tleman if he did not know that Gov. Brown's opposition was limited to a determination to resist the seizure of his militia officers! A colloquial discussion then ensued between Messrs. Kennan and Foote. which consumed some half hour. Mr. Herbert. of Texas obtained the floor, and addressed the Committee a support of the proposition of Mr. Foote for increasing the army 250,000 by a requisition upon the States. He spoke of the effect of the Conscript Act upon the people of his State. Td that the gentleman did not reflect the sentiment of Texas when he spoke of a disposition to raise the standard of revolt. Mr. Wright regretted the necessity that required him to take the floor, especially in opposition to his colleague (Mr. Herbert.) It was true he had not been in Texas since the passage of the Conscript bill, but he had been with the army at Tupelo, where he had mingled freely with ten thousand of the soldiers of his State, and among them all he had not found one dozen