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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ran away--$100 reward. (search)
roes they have set to picking out and ginning cotton on Port Royal Island will furnish enough of that article to bring any large importation in return from any country it may be carried to, and they have nothing of their own but grain and cattle to send abroad. Of course, the custom house will not furnish such a sum, and they must raise it by taxes. But will the people pay these taxes? Not unless soldiers be the tax gatherers. Even great nations, like Great Britain, will, according to Sidney Smith, bear a very heavy load of infamy, rather than a very light burden of taxation. Tory writers maintain that the indisposition to pay taxes for the most necessary wants of the Government, cost Charles This life. The Commons certainly refused to grant him supplies, and he was compelled to raise them on his own authority, in order to carry on the Government. The Whig writers say it is true that Parliament withheld supplies in order to make him concede certain rights which he withheld. Be
The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--$20 reward (search)
everally discontinued. James E. McSparren and B. F. Ames passed in examination of character, and were continued as deacons. A resolution was offered by Dr. Smith relative to ministers connected with the Conference joining the army, which caused a very interesting and spirited discussion, in which Drs. Smith, Doggett, Lee,Smith, Doggett, Lee, and Rosser, and Rev. G. W. Langhorne, Frank Stanley, and others participated. In the course of his remarks, and in justification of the course pursued by some of the ministers, Dr. Smith gave an exhibition of his well known power as a debater; and, touching upon the war, he thrilled his hearers with patriotic emotion. Others tooDr. Smith gave an exhibition of his well known power as a debater; and, touching upon the war, he thrilled his hearers with patriotic emotion. Others took the ground that the legitimate work of ministers is to preach the Gospel — to remain on the field of labor to which God has called them and the Church has placed them-- to preach and pray while the battle rages — to wage a vigorous, aggressive, but bloodless, warfare against the Devil and sin in every form, refusing, except in ex