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The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Item to be considered. (search)
An Item to be considered. --In the progress of the debate in the Convention yesterday afternoon, it was stated by Mr. Wise that Junius L. Archer, of the Bellona Foundry, had just received an order from the Government at Washington, for sending all the gens at the establishment to Fortress Monroe forth with. The order of shipment embraces all the guns in his possession, and includes some heavy Columbiads Certainly the people of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Richmond will not permit this removal of arms to be effected at this juncture of affairs.
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Richmond Dispatch. (search)
nity of a tempest in a teapot. What were the facts? In 1857, the Government, through Secretary Floyd, contracted with Dr. Archer for sundry cannon, to be delivered in Richmond. The very date of the contract exonerated the existing Government from delivery of the guns in Richmond, the money would be paid, and the head of the Ordnance Department accordingly advised Dr. Archer to deliver the guns to Colquitt & Co., in Richmond, to be by them re-shipped to Fort Monroe, the chief Virginia depot ft the Ordnance Department, immediately on being apprised that the removal of the guns had provoked excitement, notified Dr. Archer not to move them at all. What cause, then, was there for alarm, or for the passage of these harsh and illegal resolutiothe Senate resolutions would be no guaranty against a public outbreak in the future, and would not secure the rights of Dr. Archer, which we had already taken charge of and were bound to respect, for we had deprived him of the fruits of his contract
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Bostonian's view of affairs in Charleston. (search)
nity of a tempest in a teapot. What were the facts? In 1857, the Government, through Secretary Floyd, contracted with Dr. Archer for sundry cannon, to be delivered in Richmond. The very date of the contract exonerated the existing Government from delivery of the guns in Richmond, the money would be paid, and the head of the Ordnance Department accordingly advised Dr. Archer to deliver the guns to Colquitt & Co., in Richmond, to be by them re-shipped to Fort Monroe, the chief Virginia depot ft the Ordnance Department, immediately on being apprised that the removal of the guns had provoked excitement, notified Dr. Archer not to move them at all. What cause, then, was there for alarm, or for the passage of these harsh and illegal resolutiothe Senate resolutions would be no guaranty against a public outbreak in the future, and would not secure the rights of Dr. Archer, which we had already taken charge of and were bound to respect, for we had deprived him of the fruits of his contract