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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], To the people of the Second Congressional District of the State of Alabama. (search)
y laudable and proper effort to give peace to a distracted and bleeding country by negotiation. On the contrary, the statesman who would refuse to do this is a hideous moral deformity. When Mr. Orr had finished reading the foregoing. Mr. Lester, of Georgia, moved to suspend the rules in order to allow him to introduce the following resolution: Whereas, on the 14th of this month, there appeared in the columns of the Richmond Sentinel a correspondence over the signature of "Q," andicle in the Sentinel. I should have allowed it to pass in silence, as I have ever made it a rule of action to let editors alone. But the vote of this House, in refusing to allow the introduction of the resolution of the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lester) places this matter in a more serious aspect. I consider that vote as, to some extent, endorsing the Sentinel. As long as that vote stands as the sense of this body, I can take no part in its deliberations. I say this in perfect respect to th
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
warks of Freedom, and ought not to be suspended exception extreme cases, where the public safety imperatively demands it: That the people of the Confederacy are engaged in a great struggle for Liberty, and no exigency now exists requiring its suspension." Mr. Leach asked the yeas and nays, which were ordered, and resulted as follows: Yeas.--Messrs. Anderson, Bell, Boyce, Branch, Clopton, Colyar, Cruikshank, Darden, Foster, Fuller, Garland, Gilmer, Lamkin, J. M. Leach, J. T. Leach, Lester, Logan, Marshall, Miles, Murray, Orr, Ramsay, J. M. Smith, W. E. Smith, Turner and Wickham--26. Nays.--Messrs. Akin, Baldwin, Batson, Baylor, Blandford, Bradley, H. W. Bruce, Burnett, Chrisman, Clarke, Cluskey, Conrow, De Jarnette, Dupre, Ewing, Farrow, Gaither, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Hanly, Hatcher, Herbert, Hilton, Holden, Johnston, Keeble, Lyon, Machen, Moore, Norton, Perkins, Read, Russell, Sexton, Shewmake, Simpson, Snead, Staples, Triplett, Villere, Wilkes and Mr. Speaker--43.