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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Confederacy--an Answer to the Charleston Mercury. (search)
number of minor appointments in the army and navy, postmasters, &c. House.--The expenditures of the War Department for last year were laid before the House. A motion was made and agreed to that when the House adjourns it will adjourn till Saturday. Mr. Davis, from the Select Committee, reported a resolution involving the censure of the Secretary of the Navy, for accepting the resignations of the officers from the seceded States. Mr. Branch made a minority report. John Cochrane dissented from the majority report. Mr. Stanton's Force bill was then taken up. Mr. Bocock concluded his speech, commenced yesterday. He predicted that if the bill passed, the border slave States would, within sixty days, join the South. He denounced and execrated the bill. Mr. Howard responded in favor of the bill. Further consideration of the bill was postponed till Monday. The report of the Committee of Thirty-Three was taken up. Mr. Barnett made a spee
urprised on having Mr. Lincoln's card so unexpectedly sent up to him. He received him and Mr. Seward immediately, in his private parlor, where they had a social and agreeable interview of fifteen minutes duration; at the termination of which Mr. Buchanan, conducting his so unexpected guests up stairs to his office room, introduced Mr. Lincoln to his constitutional advisers, by all of whom he was gracefully and cordially greeted. On retiring from that chamber, they met Messrs. Bigler and John Cochrane in the house, and Mr. Seward presented those gentlemen to the President elect. From the President's house the twain drove to see Gen. Scott, with whom they remained for perhaps fifteen minutes in social intercourse. They returned to the hotel shortly before 12 M., and Mr. Lincoln immediately retired to his chamber to rest, giving directions that he was not then prepared to receive any of the numerous crowd of intensely interested friends who had been kicking their shins in the
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Report of the Special Committee of five on the President's Special Message. (search)
Report of the Special Committee of five on the President's Special Message. --The House Select Committee of Five on the President's Special Message have made a report on the general subjects referred to them. They therein argue against the doctrine of secession; assert the duty of centralizing the powers of the Government to enforce the laws over every part of the Union with the aid of the military, should the civil authorities prove insufficient for the purpose, etc. Mr. John Cochrane and Mr. Branch dissent from the majority's doctrines and conclusions, and they have liberty to file a statement of their views.
place, and said he had come home to share the destinies of the South, because he could no longer remain in the service of a Government hostile to her interests. After he closed, three rousing cheers were given for the gallant officer. Hon. John Cochrane, of New York, was then called out, and his speech, briefly delivered, was one of rare eloquence. He assured his hearers that there were thousands of true hearts at the North beating in unison with theirs, and if war was forced upon the couern bosoms. He expressed strong hope of an eventual restoration of the Union, (a sentiment which many did not relish,) and said that Virginia now held the destiny of the country in her hands. Coercion he denounced in most emphatic language. Mr. Cochrane was tremendously applauded at times, during the delivery of his harangue. Capt.John F. Lay, of Powhatan, was next called on. He thanked the people for the compliment that had been bestowed upon his brother, and proceeded to make a strong
An erroneous statement is going the rounds of the newspapers to the effect that the Hon. John Cochrane, of New York, was serenaded on the night of his arrival in Richmond. How this report originated we are not prepared to say; but there is no truth in it whatever.-- Col. Lay, a gallant son of Virginia, was serenaded at the Exchange Hotel on the night alluded to, and after he had appropriately acknowledged the compliment, Mr. Cochrane was called on to make a speech by some persons who desw York, was serenaded on the night of his arrival in Richmond. How this report originated we are not prepared to say; but there is no truth in it whatever.-- Col. Lay, a gallant son of Virginia, was serenaded at the Exchange Hotel on the night alluded to, and after he had appropriately acknowledged the compliment, Mr. Cochrane was called on to make a speech by some persons who desired to hear his sentiments on the great questions of the day; but the serenading party had no connection with it.
Conservative Reaction in the North. The New YorkTribune gives the following particulars of the conservative re-action in the North: "But our town elections have just been hold in as of our 60 counties, and the aggregate result is529Republican supervisors to 215 of all sorts-- a larger portion of Republicans than were ever before chosen. Yet, in the face of this unmistakable demonstration, and of the kindred response of New Hampshire, which has just elected a Republican Governor, Legislature. and full delegation to Congress, by a round 4,000 majority-- more than the average Republican majority at all her State elections since the Republican party was organized there-- Mr. John Cochrane. the cast-off servant of a cast-off and utterly used-up party, assumes to re-assure Virginia in the same and behalf of the State of New York ! Could imposture be more impudent ?"
houses of Bishop Polk, of Louisiana, and Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, at University Place, in the former State, were set on fire and burnt to the ground on the night of the 11th inst. Lieut. Custis Lee, lately stationed at Fort Washington, on the Potomac, son of Gen Robert E. Lee, has resigned his commission in the U. S. Army. The House of Representatives of Pennsylvania has refused to permit the banks of that State to issue bills of a less denomination than $5. Mayor Wood, John Cochrane, John A. Dix, Daniel S. Dickenson, of New York, formerly friends of the South, have come out for supporting Lincoln's Administration. George W. and Henry Coher were executed in Warren, Ark., a few days ago, for the murder of a small negro. The Rev. Henry Hovey has been found guilty of drunkenness and with traveling with women he calls his wives, in Wisconsin. Lady Franklin and her niece have sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu, to proceed thence to Australia and India,
ies, with some five or six hundred men, were distinctly seen by the party. Early on yesterday morning a little corps of Secessionists was brought into CampCochrane by a troop of the 69th "boys." The circumstances of their capture are briefly these: --Some of the men in the "early grey dawn," chanced to be out after stray cattle, when they spied a party of the enemy not far distant, apparently reconnoitering. They immediately returned to camp and reported. With his usual promptness Col. Cochrane dispatched a company of the 69th, who were not long in coming upon, surrounding, and arresting the parties indicated. They appeared much chagrined, professed great loyalty, and objected decidedly to a birth in the guard house. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad is being rapidly repaired. We understand the Government is repairing and intends to bring into use, for military purposes, the railway track from the Baltimore and Ohio depot, now laid along the Capitol grounds and Maryland
r. Two sons of a distinguished naval commander, now in the service, who are privates in the regiment, are amongst the disaffected. Some of these men afterward returned and were sworn in, but the greater portion of them will enlist into the Eighth and other New York regiments. At six o'clock this morning a full company of the New York Second Regiment arrived and joined their companions. There was also a large detachment for the New York Ninth Regiment. Washington, June 10.--Hon. John Cochrane, of New York, was to-day authorized by the Secretary of War to have mustered for immediate service, under the United States Commissioners, for three years, a regiment of infantry, to be raised and commanded by himself as Colonel. Movements of Federal troops in Virginia. Alexandria, June 9. --Two prisoners were captured yesterday by four privates of Company B, of the Michigan regiment, one mile this side of Burk's station, and thirteen miles from here, on the Orange and Ale
can people; that the present unfriendly feeling which exists has risen from the usurpations of Congress and the Executive; that the rights of American citizens are above Congress and the President, and Territorial governments should not be compelled to derive their powers from their consent; that there shall be no legislation whatever on the subject of slavery; that every Congressional District shall be entitled to one Presidential Elector, and each State to two on general ticket. Mr. John Cochrane submitted a preamble declaring that a conflict of opinion, dangerous to the peace and prosperity of the Union, has risen, concerning the true intent and meaning of the Constitution relative to African slavery, and proposing amendments to the Constitution to the following effect: To establish a dividing line similar to the Missouri Compromise, prohibiting Congress from passing laws interfering with the inter-State slave trade, or the rights of slaveholders in transition temporarily sojo
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