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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
From Washington. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Jan. 15, 1861. Abolition power in Congress holds its head still higher since the success of the delaying party in Virginia. The ballots ought to be headed, respectively, thus--"For voting twice to stay in under Lincoln, and taking what we can get," and "For voting once to go right out and make our own terms." Of course, Corwin and Seward will give something to keep the border States in, but they will give as little as possible, and that grudgingly, and with the mental reservation of "snatching back." --A ruffian bent on entering a house, will throw a sop to the watch dog, but it will be only to knock him in the head while he is eating. The metaphor will be fulfilled to the very letter if Virginia consents to the shame of being the rump of the abolition agrarian, negro-equality, military despotism. Two Douglas Democrats made coercion speeches in the House yesterday, and a bill is now pending to autho
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.stable burnt — Disunion Feeling, &c. Amelia Co., Va., Jan. 15, 1861. On last Sunday night, the stables of John W Knight, near the Court House, were burned down, in which he lost a very valuable young horse, and had another very badly burned. He also looses all of his agricultural implements, a lot of corn and other feed, and but for the direction of the wind which prevailed at the time, his dwelling and all of his negro houses would, in all probability, have been consumed. This is, perhaps, some of the first fruits of the decision of our County Court, at its November term, at which a negro was sentenced to be transported, instead of being hung, for burning a tobacco barn, &c., and that, too, upon positive evidence of the strongest kind. Such crimes should receive the severest punishment the law directs, especially when we remember how rarely the offenders are detected and brought to justice. We have some six or seven candidates
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Danville. Danville, Va., Jan. 15th, 1861. I have been a devoted lover of the Union, and have been disposed to say I would stick to the Union as a drowning man would upon the last plank of a sinking ship; but I am getting out of patience, and I do hope, if Mr. Crittenden's compromise is rejected, that no other proposition will be offered by any Southern man, and if there should be a compromise hereafter, let it come from the other side. I am one of those who have opposed every meeting our people have attempted to have here, and done all I could to prevent the people from passing any resolutions that were calculated to excite our people and encourage secession; but I am for anything to settle our difficulties, provided Crittenden's compromise is rejected. We have formed a Home Guard here, composed of gentlemen over 45 years of age, and have about 50 members.