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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The President and Gen. Scott. (search)
n General Scott, and it has been lost because you have forced it upon him; and I declare before God to-day, as my solemn conviction, that if this thing is to be permitted to continue, you destroy this Government forever. I stand here in my place, and make the declaration, that if General Scott cannot conduct this war, we have nobody that can. If he cannot by strategy, skill and courage, save this Government, it is impossible to save it. On this matter I have said all I desire to say. Mr. Blair, (Rep.) of Mo — I desire to say a few words Generals Patterson and Cadwallader were appointed by the Administration, but General Butler came hither as a Brigadier General. It was Massachusetts who first conferred that honor on him, and he was made a Major General for putting down a mob, and for the Executive ability which he displayed. I understand that Gen. Patterson was appointed by the advice and on the recommendation of Gen. Scott. The gentleman said that Gen. Scott had been dri
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], What is to be done with the prisoners? (search)
of horror unequalled by those of the French Revolution. The Administration, therefore, decided, as I have said, not to hang any of the pirates. But within a day or two the question has been again raised in the Cabinet. At least one member of that body is in favor, as he expresses it, of discarding all squeamish nonsense, and of hanging every rebel found in arms against the Government, whether taken on the sea or land! This is undoubtedly the course that ought to be taken, if the Government regards this matter as simply an insurrection. This is the view taken of it by President Lincoln; and he, too, although he deplores the necessity of such dreadful measures, is in favor of such a course as will show to the world that we are in earnest in this matter, and that traitors found in arms against the Government must expect and receive a traitor's doom. Mr. Bates and Mr. Blair both go for extreme measures, regardless of consequences; and Mr. Smith also entertains the same views.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our subscribers. (search)
ially diminished, and it is believed that in a short time they will entirely cases. It is stated that some 7,000 Confederates are approaching Ironton from the South. The Federal troops in that region are posted at Pilot Knoh, Ironton and Arcadia, three villages, which are about two miles apart in a narrow entrance, which can be easily defended by artillery, and a flank movement is not apprehended, in consequence of the im- passable condition of the roads around the valley. Col. Blair arrived here to-day. The Provost Marshal has issued stringent orders against wearing concealed weapons by citizens, and interdicting the sale or giving away of any description of firearms by gun smiths or other dealers, except by special permit. St. Louis, August 16. --A messenger from Gen. Siegel arrived here early this morning who reports Gen. Siegel at a point fifteen miles this side of Lebanon, expecting to reach Rolla to-day. He had not been molested on the route. Gen Lyon
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
was imminently threatened with annihilation.--They retreated rapidly, firing as they did so, when Lieut. Dubois, having got his battery under headway on the hill, near the Missouri volunteers, seeing the position of affairs on the opposite side of the valley, threw in the most precise manner several shells, which exploded just as they reached the dense mass of Secessionists, scattering them lifeless on the ground in scores, while all who could were glad to run for dear life. The men in Col. Blair's regiment were now ordered back and their position taken by the Iowa First. Gen. Lyon had previously had a poor opinion of the fighting qualities of these men, formed more from supposition than upon any real failure in duty, but now the time had come for him to reverse his judgment, which he did after their first repulse of the enemy. They fought like tigers, drove the enemy back, and followed up the advantage gained for a considerable distance. Captain Mason, Company C, was killed soon
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
etitions, signed by the Bull Run prisoners at Richmond, praying that some measures might be taken for their release or exchange. One of them was signed exclusively by the married men and heads of families, amounting to 413. It begged that they might be exchanged, in order that they might return home to provide for their families, whom, they alleged, were suffering. Another was from the three months volunteers, whose time has expired. The President read them all, and then passed them to Mr. Blair, who filed them carefully away. Skirmish in the Kanawha. The Ohio State Journal, of Monday, says: By a special dispatch from General Cox to Governor Dennison, from Gauley Bridge via Gallipolis, dated the 17th, we learn that our advanced guard, the 11th Regiment, had a skirmish with the enemy's outposts near Big Sewell mountain, 23 miles in advance of Gauley Bridge, the day before, in which five of the rebels were killed and several wounded. Our men had three slightly wounde
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
Correspondence by Express. Washington, Aug. 21. --Secretary Blair says he has no power to stop correspondence by Express, as the power belongs to the Treasury Department.
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Horrible Murder. (search)
The "Letter Express" broken up. Louisville, Aug. 26. --The last Letter Express which will be allowed to go was sent to-day, as Postmaster General Blair has directed in the future that all carriers shall be arrested. Written communications between the sections is hereafter forbidden.
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
ent the enforcement of so much of its interdict as relates to such correspondence. The officers and agent of this Department will, therefore, without further instructions, lose no time in putting an end to written intercourse with these States by causing the arrest of any Express Agent or other persons who shall after the promulgation of this order receive letters to be carried to or from these States, and will seize all such letters and forward them to this Department. (Signed) M. Blair, Postmaster General. The Adams Express Company have applied to the proper authorities for the construction to be placed on the clause in the President's proclamation relating to the interdiction of commercial intercourse with the so-called Confederate States; and learning that it was intended to include letters, immediately issued orders to all their officers to cease receiving letters without waiting for the expiration of the limit of time named in that document. It is not known w
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
treason"--I mean the aiding and abetting the enemy by information and advice. It is openly talked in society — its work is evident on all sides. I went into the private department of the Post-Office the other day, and sound there a gentleman basely engaged in sorting letters at a desk. The last time I saw him was at dinner with the Commissioners of the Confederate States at Washington, and I was rather surprised to see him now in the sanction of the Post-Office, within a few feet of Mr. Blair, of the sangre azal of abolitionism. Said he, "I am just looking over the letters here to pick out some ar Southern friends, and I forward them to their owners an I find them;" and if the excellent and acute gentleman did not also forward any little scraps of news he could collect, I am in error. Again, a series of maps prepared with great care, for the use of General McDowell's staff, are given out to be photographed, and are so scarce that superior officers cannot get them. N
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
government inaugurated by Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet, the press is not free, as it used to be under the old United States Government." In consequence of this new order of things, he proposes hereafter to avoid all reference to the deplorable political and military events transpiring, and to confine himself "to the discussion of the great question of morals and religion, that lie deeper than the plane of polities" "If, however," he adds sarcastically, "Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Postmaster- General Blair, with the rest of that virtuous Cabinet, have also got ready a new theory of morals and religion, to which all newspapers must yield 'a hearty support' or be suppressed — then we must submit to suppression of the Freeman's Appeal, as we are certain we can yield no support to their notions of morals or of religion." In ceasing to publish the Freeman's Journal Mr. McMasters protests against the lawless violence to which he has been forced to yield, and gives public notice, as
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