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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Northern Congress.--the Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! (search)
entlemen from another section of the same State. The only question involved in his case was whether the State Convention, which had been created by the Legislature, was empowered to annul a law of the Legislature. By the laws of Virginia, the Congressional election is fixed on the fourth Thursday in May; and upon that day his constituents, disregarding the ordinance of the State Convention, which they knew to have been tyrannical and illegal in that relation, elected him, with but twenty-three dissentient voices, to represent them in Congress; and his colleague, Win. G. Brown, from the adjoining district, was also elected in a like manner upon the same day. Calls for the previous question upon Mr. Burnett's resolution were made by Messrs. Washburne and Richardson of Illinois. Mr. Cox moved to lay the resolution upon the table, and upon this motion Mr. Burnett demanded the yeas and nays, but his call for them not being seconded, the motion of Mr. Cox was adopted viva voce.
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
bel States any losses they may have suffered. In the House, ex-Congressman Bull, of Ohio, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms; Hiram E. Goodenow, of New York, Doorkeeper; T. H. Stockton, Chaplain, and Wm. S. King, of Minnesota, Postmaster. Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, offered a resolution that the name of Stirling Morton be substituted for that of Samuel B. Daly, as the delegate from Nebraska Territory. He said that Mr. Morton had been elected to the position he claimed in October last, and e felt bound to say the House must either recognize the legality of the second commission, or be guilty of inconsistency. Mr. Conway finally called and insisted upon the "previous question," under the operation of which the resolution of Mr. Richardson was negatived — yeas 57, nays 75. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill to repeal all laws relating to ports of entry in the seceded States, and to authorize the holding of the United States Courts fo