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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
ade would give a revenue of $35,000,000 for the support of her political system under a Southern Confederacy. Now, the Southern people have felt too bitterly the burden of a "splendid government," under the Union, to be willing to repeat the expensive folly in a Confederacy of their own. They would eschew the scheme of a complete Federal Government, surrounded with all the costly trappings of imperial power, and content themselves with a mere Federal Agency, such as Patrick Henry and George Mason esteemed sufficient to answer all federal purposes, and such as the Government at Washington was originally designed to be. Such an agency would be as cheap in its administration as simple in its structure; scarcely costing on a peace footing more than five millions a year, and not exceeding more than an average of fifteen millions per annum in long periods embracing all the contingencies in peace and war. But even the latter expenditures would leave $20,000,000 to spare from the thirty-f
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Rejoicing at Vera Cruz. (search)
ion in peace she would make an equitable division of the Federal assets; but if war ensued, she would abolish both public and private debts; if peaceable, there might be a hope of reconstruction; if war, then all hopes of the Union are at an end. A message was received from the President, enclosing the Virginia resolutions. The President urges the importance of the subject on Congress, and eulogizes the action of Virginia. He appeals to Congress to carry out her recommendation. Mr. Mason urged that they be printed. He said the object of Virginia was first to secure peace, and, second, to obtain the rights of all the States in the Union; or, failing in this, to obtain a reconstruction, on a new basis. The resolutions were ordered to be printed. Mr. Hemphill read a speech, defending the right of secession, particularly referring to Texas, who, he believed, would secede. After the consideration of private bills, the Senate Adjourned. House.--Mr. Rice p