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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
over the return of Vallandigham. The rebel refugees in Canada were there; and a vast concourse of sympathizers with the cause of the Conspirators, and members of the traitorous league, were there, and were harangued from balconies of hotels and other places in the most incendiary and revolutionary language. Mr. Greeley, in his American Conflict, II. 667, gives specimens of speeches by two clergymen, belonging to the Peace Faction, at outside meetings in Chicago. One of them, named Chauncey C. Burr, said that Mr. Lin coin had stolen a good many thousand negroes; but for every negro he had thus stolen, he had stolen ten thousand spoons. It had been said that, if the South would lay down their arms, they would be received back into the Union. The South could not honorably lay down their arms, for she was fighting for her honor. Two millions of men had been sent down to the slaughter-pens of the South, and the army of Lincoln could not again be filled, either by enlistments nor co
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Peace meeting in New York. (search)
likely to accomplish these ends. [Applause.] The Chairman then stated that as soon as the committee to draft an address shall have been appointed, the names of the gentlemen constituting the committee will be officially announced. Chauncey C. Burr was then introduced to the meeting, and received a most cordial and enthusiastic reception from the audience. As soon as the enthusiasm had subsided, Mr. Burr spoke substantially as follows: Mr. President: On being called up to addresMr. Burr spoke substantially as follows: Mr. President: On being called up to address this association of working men I call to mind a passage in Edmund Burke's celebrated "Thoughts on Scarcity," in which that great observer of the relative position and duties of the rich and laboring classes confesses that "Not only States and states men, but all classes and descriptions of the rich are pensioners of the working class, and are maintained by their superfluity. They are under an absolute, hereditary, and indispensable dependence on those who labor, and miscalled the poor, and i
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News. (search)
as called upon and at great length responded to the toast referring to the Dred Scott decision. His speech was a very effective one to judge from the loud applause with which it was received. After some other toasts were disposed of, Mr. Chauncey C. Burr made some eloquent remarks in response to the fifth toast. Alluding to a remark of Cicero, he said that men should not only speak the truth, but the whole truth. The country, according to all human eyes, is now in the throes of death, anould undertake to say that the present Administration was a total depravity. [Cheers.] Mr. Lincoln had no right to use the army and navy to compel or force any unwilling State into the Union, any more than to force an unwilling State out of it. Mr. Burr's remarks were very sharp and caustic, and frequently elicited rounds of applause. The effect of Grant's failure in the coming campaign. The New York Herald hasn't yet mustered the courage to say that Grant's failure in Virginia will end