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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The battle of Payne's Farm. (search)
l, and the coast to be blockaded three thousand miles in extent — a palpable acknowledgment that the blockade was a failure. Russell himself claimed credit for having assisted the Government of the United States to keep up this paper blockade, although it inflicted enormous injury on British trade. He afterwards stated that the United States were not in a condition to insist upon other nations acknowledging that the blockade was effectual.--Notwithstanding this positive declaration, when Mr. Mason called on Russell to request the British Government to withhold its sanction from this gross violation of public law, Russell replied that, though the blockade had not been effective some time since, it was at that particular moment. He had a new interpretation, also, ready for the clause in the declaration of Paris, which says that no blockade shall be considered effective unless "sufficient to prevent access to the coast." "That clause," he said, "was directed against blockades not sust
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
e be, and are hereby, instructed to report as speedily as may be, the bill of the extra session, or a similar one, providing for a commutation of the pay of members of the General Assembly. Mr. Dickinson presented a joint preamble and resolutions in regard to the death of the late Major John Seddon, of Stafford county, a member of the Senate, who died in Richmond on the 3d inst. Mr. Dickinson paid a feeling tribute to the memory of the deceased, as also did Messrs. Douglas and Newman of Mason. The preamble and resolutions having been adopted were reported to the House by Mr. Dickinson. The Senate then adjourned in honor of the memory of Mr. Seddon. In the House of Delegates, the Clerk called the roll, when, seventy- eight members answering to their names, the Speaker announced the organization complete, there being one more than a quorum present. On motion of Mr. Haymond, a committee was appointed to wait upon and inform the Governor that the House, having organize