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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Dispatches from Washington. (search)
his daughter, who is quite low with typhoid fever. Mr. Dundas, Second Assistant, is not expected to live, having suffered for some time with a fatal disease of the kidneys. Mr. Childs, who has been acting for Mr. Dundas, was yesterday summoned from his duties by the death of a child. These facts, together with the natural complications presented in that department at this crisis, combine to embarrass the business to a great degree. The Crisis Committee are not making much headway. Mr. Corwin, the Chairman, has reported a series of resolutions, which it is understood are intended to meet the crisis. It is said that they meet the approval of a majority of the Republicans on the Committee.--They are nearly as follows. First--Pledging the faith of Congress against any attempt to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Second--Against interfering with the interstate trade between the States. Third--The abolition of slavery in the dock yards and arsenals in the s
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Remarkable Rascality in Chicago. (search)
n the confidence of the Northern members of the Committee, asserts positively that the Republicans will yield all the South ask. He says he has this directly from Corwin and Curtis. Hitherto the Republican members of the Committee have avowed their determination to let the Union perish rather than own that the Constitution reerever the Federal jurisdiction extends that other property enjoys. If this is voted down, they will retire. Hitherto the Republicans, with the exception of Corwin, have offered no resolutions looking to pacification. All these have come from the South. The Republicans assume the defensive, as if to say "We knew of no injustice done you of the South. But if you will state your grievance, we may consider it." Corwin's proposed amendment of the Fugitive Slave law makes It, it is said, even more ineffectual than it now is. The Chicago Tribune blazes with indignation at the bare idea of enforcing any such law whatever, and closes by saying: