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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
t of all human calamities, and can only be excused in cases of extreme emergency. The people of these Southern States have seen it in all its horrors; and had they their choice in future, we are confident that nothing could ever induce them to engage in it again. It is a calamity, let it result as it may; let it be crowned with victory or marked by defeat. "A great victory," said the Duke of Wellington, "is the most terrible of all calamities except a great defeat." In the same spirit, General Lee is said to have expressed the hope that he should never see any more fighting. "War is only sweet to those who never tried it," says the old beggar in Scott's novel of the Antiquary, who had been a soldier during many years of his life. But to persons of that description it seems to be peculiarly and unnaturally sweet. The people of the South, for example, who have experienced all the horrors that war can bring in its train, pray day and night that they may never again be visited
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
n Confederate States Treasury notes constituted the currency of the country as will secure uniformity of decision. On motion, the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. The House met at 12 o'clock M. The Chair announced the following as the select joint committees on oysters, freedmen and emigration, in pursuance of Senate joint resolution: Committee on Oysters.--Messrs. Seawell, Garnett, Braxton, Straughan, Purdy, Smith, Bekem, Thompson, J. S. Davison, Towns, Wyatt and Lee. Committee on Emigration.--Messrs. Herndon, Cabell, Waddell, Owen and Stearns. Committee to Confer with the Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau. --Messrs. Atkinson, English, Brown, Mosby, Rixey, Holmes, Harris, Graves, J. McD. Taylor and Hardy. Mr. Wall, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported as follows: Resolved. That J. H. C. Jones is entitled to a seat on the floor of the House of Delegates as the member elect from the district composed of the cou
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
erday afternoon at four o'clock, the following members being present: Messrs. Grattan (President,) Stokes. Clopton, Epps, Lee, Griffin, Burr Scott, Richardson. Tardy, Crutchfield. Lancaster, Glazebrook, Smith and Millspaugh. Mr. Lee moved thMr. Lee moved that Mr. Garrett be permitted to make a statement, and leave being granted that gentleman produced a memorandum for a quantity of liquor destroyed by order of the Council, in his store, on the night of the 2d of April belonging to Messrs. Brand Edward Mr. Crutchfield opposed the passage of the resolution and Mr. Glazebrook advocated it. The resolution passed. Mr. Lee offered a resolution fixing the salary of the Chief of Police at $2,000 per annum; that of the first officer at $1.100; lopton moved to amend by giving the chief of Police $2,500 instead of $2,000 per annum. The amendment was adopted. Mr. Lee moved to amend so as to make the salary of the first officer $1,250, for the sake of preserving consistency in the salar