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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
tructive party. Its one idea is the negro; its general policy is the overthrow of the Constitution; not by revolution, open and with arms, but by legislation. Mr. Stevens, who is the leader of that party in the House, is bold and impetuous enough, but, altogether, wants discretion. He has avowed his object too soon and too openlpeople, have a respect for the Constitution. They will not consent to alter it so entirely that the very men who made it would not know it again, in order that Mr. Stevens and his party may be enabled to keep the Democratic party out of office. This is what he proposes as the object of all the legislation which he has introduced.nderstood the motive. The end of all legislation should be the benefit of the country. Any end of less importance will not justify any system of legislation. Mr. Stevens proposes to make the reign of his party perpetual; and for this purpose he makes use of the power temporarily placed in his hands. Legislation for the purpose
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Semmes, of the Alabama. (search)
,735,000. An increase of upward of $4,000,000 has been issued during the present week. The Radicals willing to assume the Southern Debt. The speeches of Mr. Stevens and Mr. Raymond have been the great subjects of comment here ever since they were delivered. It is conceded that Mr. Raymond completely demolished every argument advanced by Mr. Stevens. But, on the other hand, the friends of the latter gentleman, and the Radicals generally, do not deny or seek to evade the consequences that would arise from the adoption by the Government of the theory of Mr. Stevens. They boldly avow their willingness to meet those consequences. They are willing, thMr. Stevens. They boldly avow their willingness to meet those consequences. They are willing, they say, to admit the right of secession; they are willing to admit that we cannot try or convict Jefferson Davis for treason, because he was the head of an acknowledged belligerent power; they are willing to admit the doctrine of State sovereignty; they are willing to admit that the Confederacy was an independent power, a separate