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The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Dangerously III. (search)
inn., given by the German Catholics, for the benefit of their church, Protestants and Catholics joined cordially, and raised $2,000. The Episcopal Bishops of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and Georgia have discontinued the "prayer for the President" in the service. A convention of workingmen is to be held in Portsmouth, Va., on the 12th prox., to send delegates to the National Convention at Philadelphia on the 22d prox. Thomas Francis Meagher was among the passengers from Central America who arrived by the Ariel at New York. The flannel mill of J. Stott & Sons, at Stottville, N. Y., was burnt on the 28rd Inst.--loss $10,000. Ex-President Tyler will, while in Washington, sojourn with the President by special invitation. The Crittenden resolutions have passed the New Jersey Senate, the Republicans to a man voting against them. Among the novelties in New York churches is a hydraulic engine for "blowing the organ. " The report that Ex-President Pier
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last day of the U. S. Congress. (search)
d he answered, 'to free the slave who is the cause of the war.' What will you do with him when thus freed? 'Allow you to have him as a "Peon" to work your fields, if you are willing to pay for their services; if not, they can be colonized in Central America.' Dr. Wirt then inquired if the fugitive slave law was to be respected. Mr. Chase said:'It would have to be modified, and when a slave who escaped was pursued and identified, he could be given up or paid for; if paid for, he would be sent ted in Central America.' Dr. Wirt then inquired if the fugitive slave law was to be respected. Mr. Chase said:'It would have to be modified, and when a slave who escaped was pursued and identified, he could be given up or paid for; if paid for, he would be sent to the aforesaid colony in Central America.' "He added, in the event of war in the South, no slaves would be in Virginia within one year; and in ten years, no slaves would be found within the borders of the Southern Confederacy."
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Presidential inauguration. (search)
From Central America. New York, March 5. --The steamer Northern Light, from Aspinwall on the 26th, has arrived. The New Granadian Government does not ratify the treaty with the United States, saying that it is a match for either the Northern or Southern Confederacies. No tidings had been received from the Levant.
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The sun going out. (search)
did collation for his friends. The health of the President was proposed and drank, to which he did not respond, having spoken a few minutes before. About that time the Vice President entered the room, and was toasted; held a brief consultation with the President, and then proceeded to respond. He referred to the new Constitution, and pointed out the principal features wherein it differed from the old. He thought under it our territory would be enlarged, Mexico might be ours; the border States would unite with us; possibly our extreme Southern border itself would be away down in the tropical clime of Central America; the whole united and homogeneous in interests, all bound together on the great principle, the grand substratum of society, the inferiority of the negro race, and the perpetuation of the institution of slavery. He was frequently loudly applauded. He said that the Northwestern States might be admitted under the express stipulation that they would adopt our institution
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The "Times " on Secession. (search)
From Central America. New York, April 3. --The steamer Northern Light, from Aspinwall on the 25th ult., has arrived. Advices from Pen state that President Moreno, of Ecuador, has been intriguing for the annexation of his country to France.
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Position of San Domingo. (search)
another entrance from the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea, separates on that side Hayti from the island of Porto Rico, the strait that divides them being about the same breadth as the Windward Passage--twenty-five miles. It will thus be seen that Hayti lies exactly midway between Cuba and Porto Rico, both of which are Spanish dependencies, and any Power holding these three islands would be in possession of the ocean gateways to the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and all the States of Central America. We have been the more particular in describing the geographical situation of these islands, and their relative positions in regard to each other, because intelligence reaches us from Havana to the effect that Spain has seized upon that part of the island of Hayti which is known to us as the Dominican Republic, or, more popularly still, as San Domingo, and is about to re-annex it to the Spanish Crown. There is nothing at all improbable in this report, though it is not unlikely, if
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
unding of the Board with other kindred enterprises, thereby diverting funds that might otherwise have been realized; and thirdly, by the revolutionary condition of the country, which has well night, for the present, paralyzed their labors. The State Boards have done much in a similar work, and this Board hope that they may take the entire labor within the States upon themselves, leaving to the Southern Board the Territories, Indian Tribes, and the semi-barbarous countries of Mexico and Central America. The report was referred to a committee. The Treasurer's report was then read by the Corresponding Secretary. On motion, Resolved. That a committee be appointed to recommend such verbal changes in the Constitution and Minutes as may be necessary, growing out of the recent formation of the Southern Confederacy. The Board of Domestic Missions reported, through M. T. Sumner, Corresponding Secretary. The report is very elaborate, embracing a vast amount of Christia
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Southern students at the North. (search)
From Central America. New York, Nov. 11. --The steamer Tennessee, from Vera Cruz on the 7th, has arrived. Juarez had granted an extension of the Chaunthill Charter. The Constitutionalists were still before Guadalajara. The country was in a dreadful state of excitement.
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Romance of Rascality. (search)
untry. For sale by J. W. Randolph. The Four Georges; Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life. By W. M. Thackeray. New York: Harper & Bros. These are the well known lectures of Thackeray, gotten up in handsome style and illustrated. For sale by J. W. Randolph. Nicaragua; its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition and Proposed Canal; with one hundred maps and illustrations. By E. G. Squier, formerly Charge d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Central America. New York: Harper & Bros. This book is published in good style and has peculiar interest now when the ill-fated expeditions of the American filibusters are fresh in the memory. For sale by J. W. Randolph. We have received from Messrs. West & Johnston, the publishers, a neat pamphlet, comprising the speech of Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, in defence of Cook, and his address before the Literary Societies of the University of Virginia. These efforts of one of the greatest orators of th
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
derstand the subject, and we have no fears in regard to their verdict." My bounden duty is to place these facts before the citizens of Virginia. Let them draw their own conclusions. Hale's speech, yesterday, commanded little attention. The buffoon of the Senate, his utterances lose all their point in consequence of that fact. He is playing for the Presidency, when the pure abolitionists have superceded the mild abolitionism of Lincoln. Wade's threat to colonize Mexico and Central America with free negroes, shows what we of the South have to expect if we yield to the Republicans. The Republicans are in high glee to-day. They say a compromise is certain. And how will it be passed? Mark well. All the Southern members of the Crisis Committee, with a few Northern men, will vote for the compromise, the Republicans not voting, or voting against it. It was with some such expectation that Pennington constituted the committee so that the mildest and most yielding Souther
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