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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], The last Confederate prisoner. (search)
Liberia, through a colored agent, was transported from Lynchburg to Baltimore, where the Colonization Society took the complete charge. The last report gives to freedmen's schools, 195 teachers, 11,500 scholars. The Congressmen are about carrying out the last card in the original programme of the disunion cabal. It is to go home and agitate the State Legislatures, that are about to sit, to antagonize the President by instructions to Senators and Representatives in Congress. Mr. Newton, Commissioner of Agriculture, is preparing to send seeds, &c., to the members elect from the South. There is certainly need enough of this policy, whether regarded upon grounds of right, or mercy, or charity. A delegation of Friends, representing thirteen different States, waited upon the President yesterday and expressed to him their confidence in his administration and general approval of his policy. It would hardly be expected, of course, that that sect, if a class may properly b