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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters at Charleston. (search)
During the greater portion of his absence James has been used as a servant on the plantation of Mr. Edward Walker, six miles from Beaufort, by a Yankee, named Thompson, the "Superintendent." of Negroes. Thompson has his two sisters living with him, and acting as school-marms. He says that a regiment of white troops is stationThompson has his two sisters living with him, and acting as school-marms. He says that a regiment of white troops is stationed at Mr. Tom Baynard's, and another white regiment at Barnwell's brick house. These regiments are relieved every weeks; and from these two points, as centres, the enemy throw out their pickets. From July 8 to the middle of October there were but 3,000 troops on Beaufort and Paris Islands and in that neighborhood. But, during t have been shot dead for swearing that they would not fight. One of them belonged to Mr. Richard Fuller, and the other to Brigadier-General Finegan. Whatever portions of the above facts are based upon hearsay were obtained by James from his Yankee taskmaster, Thompson, and from the white soldiers whom he happened to meet.
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Pennsylvania decision on the conscript act. (search)
The Pennsylvania decision on the conscript act. --The recent decision of Judges Lowrie, Thompson, and Woodard, of Philadelphia, that the U. S. draft is unconstitutional, has been published. The decision will amount in effect to nothing nor will any other legal decision do more, it is adverse to the Government now ruling with a rod of iron the free and glorious Yankee nation. The New York News says: However much the opinions of Administration organs may be at variance with those of our constituted tribunals, we trust that all parties will accept the law as interpreted by its legitimate expounders. There may be no penalty for insult, but there is for violation of the law, and that penalty will attach to the highest in authority as well as to the humblest citizen. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has declared that certain citizens of that State have been deprived of liberty, placed under military restraint, and subjected to great privation, suffering and danger, by a proc