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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
ainly presented the issue before the country. Mr. Wilson said he had no desire to force equality on the Senator from Indiana. What he wanted was to let every man assume the station God intended him to attain. The yeas and nays were ordered, and resulted as follows: Yeas.--Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Conness, Cowan, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harland, Harris, Howard, Howe, Lane, (Ind.,) Lane, (Kansas,) Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, Wilson--34. Nays.--Messrs. Buckalew, Davis, Harding, Hendricks, Nesmith. Powell, Richardson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Winkle--12. The loyal member from Kentucky would like a few slaves to be Spared. Mr. Stevens offered an amendment to the Conscription bill, that persons of African descent, between 20 and 45 years of age, whether citizens of the United States or not, shall be enrolled and form part of the national for
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements of the enemy in the South. (search)
The movements of the enemy in the South. The expedition under the Yankee General Sherman, which was evidently designed for a land demonstration against Mobile, seemed to have come to a stand-still in the vicinity of Meridian, Miss. This point is at the junction of the Southern Mississippi and Mobile and Ohio Railroads, and is one hundred and thirty-four miles above Mobile. Official information was yesterday received at the War Department that since their arrival at Meridian no demonstration has been made by the enemy. Since our last report they have made no further assault on Grant's Pass, below Mobile. A dispatch received at the War Department states that the enemy had landed heavy force and were marching against Gen. Finnegan, who lately repulsed them at Lake City, Fla.
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The situation in Mississippi. (search)
The situation in Mississippi. It is the general impression that Sherman will have something else to do before marching direct on Mobile. His expedition may first strike the Tombigbee at Demopolis and capture Selma and Montgomery; but the final point is the Gulf city. The Atlanta Appeal, speaking of the situation, says: The late movement of the enemy in Mississippi, whether regarded as a military enterprise, a strategic policy, or a coup de guerre, is certainly the most extraordinary of the war. For an army of thirty or forty thousand men to cut itself loose from its base, like a balloon from its moorings, and plunge into the depths of an unexplored country, confronting the hazards not only of resistance but of exhaustion and starvation, is a mark of boldness, not to say of extreme recklessness, and is but an additional evidence of the extremities to which the enemy is driven in order that an end may be accomplished or a point carried. There can scarcely be a doubt,