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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Vallandingham — what will Lincoln do? (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional Northern news. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Expedition to the lower Rappahannock —— capture of two Yankee gunboats. (search)
Northern Conservatism.
--The last Northern news recites the purport of the resolutions of a Convention of "old Whigs," held at Rochester, New York. Ex-President Fillmore and Washington Hunt were the prominent figures in this movement.
The sentiments of the party as there expounded are favorable to peace upon the basis of a return of the States in rebellion under their State Constitutions "as they existed at the time they revolted"--to leaving the rights of property in slaves and everything else to the jurisdiction of the States--and to prosecuting the war only for the restoration of the Union, by suppressing the insurrection, &c.--but they are decidedly for that! They propose a National Convention.
The old Whig party, or, as it was called, the "old line Whig party," which is understood to have composed this convention, is the most respectable, as it is the most unintentional, broken down and rejected, of all Northern political organizations.
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