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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Speech of the New Senator from Georgia. (search)
Speech of the New Senator from Georgia. --Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, the news-elected Confederate Senator from Georgia, made a speech in Milledgeville on the 24th inst. A letter gives the following summary of his address: He come square up to the support of the Administration, and defended the impressment law as a necessary measure for the subsistence or the army. He would have prices fixed by arbitrators of the vicinage. He counselled the cordial support of the Government as the sheet-anchor of our hopes. He thought it unstatesmanlike and unmanly to say that the law was unconstitutional, or that the Government was oppressive. There were some, he said, that the angel Gabriel could not satisfy. He would not have the arrogance, he said, to say that he could offer a remedy for our financial difficulties. He thought taxation must be vigorously resorted to, and had been delayed too long. He denounced those who have tried the spirit of the people by abuses of the imp
cent. --Freights are dull, and the markets continue depressed. Gold Wednesday, 147½ closing rate. Miscellaneous. Later advices from Europe have been received, but the news is unimportant. The rate of interest of the Bank of England had been advanced to seven per cent. The Confederate loan and United States sixes, twenty years to run, were quoted at the same prices in London--twenty-five per cent. discount. The draft in the 2d and 9th wards, Baltimore, took place on the 24th inst. There was no disturbance. It is reported that Gen. Seigel will succeed Gen. Schenck in command at Baltimore. Gen. Sanders died from the wounds received in the fight near Knoxville. He entered West Point from Mississippi. One of Banks's staff officers reports that a large quantity of cotton had been captured at and near Brownsville. An expedition was to be sent to the Rio Grande, and it was thought that 250,000 bales would be secured. The Union men at Brownsville are form