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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Thanksgiving day in Berlin. (search)
many fish out of water were slavery abolished. He forgets that these are all men in the prime of existence, men of bone and muscle — men of spirit and energy — an immense army of themselves, 350,000 strong. Give to each of these men a wife and three children, and you will find at once nearly two millions interested in slavery, and dependent upon it, from this source alone. Helper overlooked all this, and the followers of Helper continually overlook it when they calculate upon finding the non-slaveholders favorable to their schemes. The New York Times sports another fallacy with great persistency. It is trying to prove that the State of Massachusetts is worth more than all the cotton States, and says that Lowell alone produces more than South Carolina, and Philadelphia more than a dozen South Carolinas rolled into one. This is the old tale of the belly and the limbs over again. What would Lowell or Philadelphia be if the cotton States were struck out of existence tomorro
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Peruvian cotton. (search)
Mr. Withers offered a clause that "every officer appointed shall take the following oath." He said it was implied, according to some authorities, that no other oaths shall be taken. The ordinance was adopted unanimously. The Convention is now at its second ballot for three Commissioners to go to Washington. R. W. Barnwell was elected one on the first ballot. A. G. Magrath and J. L. Orr stand the best chances among their competitors for the other two. Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Mass., arrived last night, remained five hours, and departed for Washington. Rumors are various as to his mission here. The Legislature to-day changed the name of the Committee on Federal to "Foreign" Relations. It also appointed a committee to report the design of a State flag. A grand procession of Minute Men took place to-day. It included several thousand Minute Men, citizens, firemen and strangers in its line, besides military, with music, banners, and two large locomotive reflect
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
The Boston Advertiser, the leading Republican paper of Massachusetts, urges the repeal of the Personal Liberty laws of that State.
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
McDonald, of Ga., who died a few days since was the President of the memorable Southern Rights' Convention, at Nashville, Tenn., in 1850. His last public position was that of Elector on the Breckinridge ticket in Georgia. The citizens of Massachusetts and the Personal Liberty Bills. Chief Justice Shaw, B. R. Curtis, Joel Parker, and other citizens of Massachusetts equally distinguished, have addressed a letter to the people of that State on the Personal Liberty Bills, which they declarMassachusetts equally distinguished, have addressed a letter to the people of that State on the Personal Liberty Bills, which they declare to be unconstitutional. They urge strongly the repeal of them, and say: We know it is doubted by some whether the present is an opportune moment to abrogate them. It is said — We grant these laws are wrong, but will you repeal them under a threat? We answer no. We would do nothing under a threat. We would repeal them under our own love of right; under our own sense of the sacredness of compacts; under our own convictions of the inestimable importance of social order and domestic pea