Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Porcher Miles or search for Porcher Miles in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], A Congressional Joke. (search)
A Congressional Joke. --Mr. Porcher Miles, of the Charleston district, excused himself and his colleagues from voting on the question of a select committee, intimating, in substance, that before it could report its conclusions South Carolina would be out of the Union, and he himself, instead of being Miles in Congress, would be Miles away.