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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Press on the Message. (search)
e must fall, and ought to fall. Northern fanaticism would deny the first, has loosened the second, and threatens the last. Will the conservatives repair the wrong and restore the edifice? [Music--"Star Spangled Banner."] By request, Hon. John M. Botts responded. The Union was a subject upon which he was always prepared to speak. He referred with gratification to the fact that the Electoral vote of Virginia had been cast for Bell and Everett, and accorded honor to the five Breckinridge of officers — and Congress assuming the responsibility of paying for every slave so rescued, and holding it as a charge against the State in which such rescue was effected — and it would satisfy all the South except South Carolina. [Applause] Mr. Botts commented with some severity upon the President's Message. He thought it an absurdity for the President to say that he could not execute the law in South Carolina, because there was no Judge and no Marshal. If the Constitution and the laws co