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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], State Convention. (search)
tted a letter from the Hon. A. R. Boteler, accepting his aapointment to a seat in the Provisional Congress, (to succeed Hon. James M. Mason,) and expressing thanks for the honor thus conferred. Ordered to be entered on the journal. The extortioners. Mr. Chambliss laid before the Convention a series of resolutions passed by a portion of the people of Sussex and Greensville counties on the 27th of November, denouncing the extortioners and monopolists in bitter terms. The resolutions were referred to the "Committee on Salt." Secret session. The Convention then went into secret session for the purpose of considering the ordinance to reorganize the militia. Personal explanation. After the doors were reopened, Mr. Branch made a personal explanation, feeling aggrieved by the Greensville resolutions. [A fuller account of this proceeding will be found in another column] Mr. Chambliss made a few remarks on the same subject; after which, the Convention adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hog Cholera. (search)
m before that body. These resolutions were referred to a select committee appointed some days ago, generally called the "Salt Committee," and there it was supposed the subject would drop. At a subsequent stage of the proceedings, however, Mr. Branch, of Petersburg, rose to a privileged question, and revealed the fact that he was the person alluded to in the fifth resolution of the Greensville meeting, which he considered a most unjustifiable attack upon his honor and his patriotism. To prand only advanced on the price as the market advanced, selling some of it as high as $14.50. He admitted that he made money on the salt, as any other gentleman merchant ought to; but not as an extortioner, the very name of which he abominated. Mr. Branch made a very minute statement of the details, closing with a suggestion that the Convention, instead of passing a law to regulate the price of salt, had better pass one to prohibit the killing of hogs before the 10th of January, "by which means"