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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cheroker Georgia can bread the Army (search)
ong the route, and made five short addresses during the day. At Louisa Court-House a large concourse was collected, including many ladies, who showered bonquets upon the old hero at the conclusion of his short and stirring appeal. At Charlottesville, also, and the University, large crowds were collected, who seemed perfectly wild with enthusiasm and delight. After dining at the American in this town, he visited the encampment near the town, and made a short address to the soldiers. Hon. A. H. H. Stuart also made them a war speech during the evening. Great desire is manifested to join the Wise Legion, and recruiting officers are canvassing the whole country. Two Lexington Cadets started up the Valley this morning to raise a company, and yesterday evening Capt. Bock's company of Cavalry, splendidly mounted, and waiting for double-barrelled guns as their chosen weapon, voted unanimously to join the Legion. They number upwards of ninety men. The most favorable accounts reach us
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Hon. John M. Botts. (search)
led, and order Gen Scott to return to his post and attend to the legitimate duties of his command of the army. The Southern man who would send armed men to shed the blood of his brethren, is fully capable of betraying the colleague to whose friendship he owes his undeserved elevation. The President has yet the power to prove his reprobation of this reprehensible proceeding, and we trust that he will not hesitate to exercise it before the sun sets." Views of Ex-Secretaries. Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior under Mr. Fillmore, has written a letter to a gentleman in Chicago, recommending that a division line be run along the parallel of 36 deg. 30 min, to the Pacific — excepting California--that the normal condition of all the territory we now have or may hereafter acquire north of that line shall be free, and all south of it slave, until it shall be admitted into the Union as States, and that then it may be changed at the pleasure of its inhabitants.--This, wit
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Hon. John M. Botts. (search)
The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock by the President. Prayer by Rev. Dr. J. L. Burrows, of the Baptist Church. The Alabama Commissioners.--A communication from the House of Delegates was received, informing the Senate of the adoption of a resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to receive and confer with the Commissioners from Alabama. The said resolution was concurred in, and the President appointed as a Committee on the part of the Senate Messrs. August, Stuart and Neeson. Increased Taxation.--The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Wickham, directing, the Committee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of imposing additional taxes on the people of this Common wealth, with a view of meeting the immediate heavy expenditures likely to be incurred under the existing troubles, was taken up, and being debated pro and con by Messrs. Lynch, Brannon, Douglass and Wickham, was, on motion of Mr. Thomas, laid on the table. Standing Committees.--
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
Evening session. The Convention met at 5 o'clock, Mr. Southall in the Chair. On motion of Mr. Stuart, the report of the Committee on the amended Constitution of Virginia be made the order of the day to-morrow at 11 o'clock. Mr. Sheffey opposed this motion and called for the ayes and noes. The roll was called, eved the Constitution ought to be reformed as in its present form it stands only as a standing monument of demagogism and political charlatanry. Mr. A. H. H. Stuart proposed an amendment, providing that when this Convention shall have made suitable arrangements for the election of members of Congress and for the choice of a Ption being now in the hands of the Printer. An ordinance was called up, entitled an ordinance to suspend the Board of Public Works during the war. Mr. A. H. H. Stuart was of opinion that under the Constitution we had no power to abolish the Board of Public Works. The ordinance was then, under the previous question, voted
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Abe Lincoln's appearance. (search)
Abe Lincoln's appearance. --Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, thus describes Lincoln: Abraham is, as well as he could judge, about an inch or an inch and a half taller than him self--Mr. Stuart is over six feet in height — an awkward, gaunt frame, long arms, with hands like rakes, long, slender legs, and feet like mattocks. His manners, appearance and conversation, clearly indicated that he was not accustomed to good society, but that he was a coarse, rude, uncultivated man, with no, thus describes Lincoln: Abraham is, as well as he could judge, about an inch or an inch and a half taller than him self--Mr. Stuart is over six feet in height — an awkward, gaunt frame, long arms, with hands like rakes, long, slender legs, and feet like mattocks. His manners, appearance and conversation, clearly indicated that he was not accustomed to good society, but that he was a coarse, rude, uncultivated man, with none of the qualifications essential to grace the position he hol
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Election of Printer. (search)
Arrived. --Among the people who have lately arrived here in Richmond, are A. H. H. Stuart, Staunton; Geo. H. Kyle, Baltimore; J. H. Hammond, S. C., S. M. Yost, Staunton.
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], To prevent the escape of Negroes. (search)
ton Vindicator says: "The meeting was addressed by J. M. McCue, Esq., member of the House of Delegates from this county; Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, Attorney-General of Virginia; H. W. Sheffey, Esq., Speaker of the House of Delegates, and A. H. H. Stuart, Esq., of Staunton. The speeches were all patriotic, practical and telling. At the conclusion of Mr. Stuart's speech, contributions of provisions and money were solicited, when sixty-two of those present subscribed one hundred and thirty-fMr. Stuart's speech, contributions of provisions and money were solicited, when sixty-two of those present subscribed one hundred and thirty-five barrels of flour, seven thousand one hundred pounds of bacon, and one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in money and bonds. The rush to lay their provisions and funds on the altar of their country was exciting, and the scene grand beyond description, being the offerings not only of the man with his thousands, but also of the poor man, with his mite. " A series of patriotic resolutions were adopted, among which we find the following: "That our subjugation cannot be of fected i
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Alleged robbery by a drayman. (search)
News from the Virginia Legislature via New York city. --The Herald's Richmond correspondent says there is a strong feeling among the "pure Virginians" in the Legislature in favor of going into an election of United States Senators. But the majority fear the powers at Washington. J. R. Tucker, R. M. T. Hunter, Governor Peirpoint, General Strother, John M. Botts, C. H. Lewis, A. H. H. Stuart, J. B. Baldwin and L. C. P. Cowper are, according to this correspondent, the candidates. Mr. Grattan, ("the leader of the House,") Mr. Sewell and Mr. Garnett are for Hunter and Tucker; Mercier, Stearns and Lemosy for Botts; Gilmer for Peirpoint.-- "Messrs. Segar and Underwood do not seem to have any friends in either House, though they deserve many." [We give this gossip for what it is worth. It is surely new to us.] The correspondent of the New York Times writes that a growing sentiment exists here in favor of so altering the Constitution of Virginia as to make the possession of
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