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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Confederate Congress. Thursday, Oct. 2, 1862. Senate.--The Senate met at 11 o'clock A. M.--Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, in the Chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Woodbridge. The Senate bill providing for enlistments in the marine corps, with House amendments, was taken 0up, and amendments concurred in. The Senate Exemption bill, with House amendments, was taken up. Mr. Spatrow moved the Senate disagree to the House amendments, and that a committee on the part of the Senate be appointed to confer with a House committee to perfect the bill. Agreed to. House bill to enable the President to provide means for military transportation by the construction of a road between Blue Mountain, in Alabama, and Rome, in Georgia. Passed. Ayes 14, nays 4. House bill to authorize the Postmaster General to employ special agents to superintend and secure the certain and speedy transportation of the mails across the Mississippi river. Amendment offered by Mr. Johnson agreed to, and
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
ndon Times earnestly denounces the policy of the abolitionists of the North in seeking to raise the negroes of the South against their masters. It says that the idea of the Abolitionists is to organize a series of Cawnpore massacres as legitimate devices of warfare, but it thinks they will not be successful in the attempt. It adds: "Indeed, it is difficult to see how a proclamation by a besieged or fugitive President can have any greater effect than the documents issued by such Generals as Hunter and Phelps inciting the negroes to revolt." It trues that President Lincoln will refrain from an act which will be at once a crime and a blunder, which will in no way advance the Federal cause, but only deepen and make the hatred between the two sections. The the bankers' organ, is opposed to it in fore, while the Saturday Review, the leading literary authority, cannot fine words strong enough to express its sense of the atrocity of suddenly freeing the negroes. There may be, it says