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The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' State-rights ticket.-- Peachy R. Grattan, P. H. Aylett, Geo. W. Randolph. (search)
nt was agreed to — yeas 49, nays 32. Formal charge of "treason" against Secessionists. A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald says: F. C. Treadwell, a lawyer of New York, on Saturday handed Chief Justice Taney an affidavit, in which he charges Governor Floyd, Howell Cobb, Mr. Toombs, Mr. Iverson, Jeff Davis, General Lane, of Oregon, and all the seceding delegations, except Mr. Hill, of Georgia, and the greater part of the other Southern delegations in Congress, except Mr. Bouligny, by name, with treason and misprision of treason, and prays that Winfield Scott, James Buchanan, Robert Anderson and others may be summoned as witnesses. The punishment of treason is death, and of misprision of treason seven years imprisonment and a fine not less than one thousand dollars. Judge Taney kept the affidavit three days, and ordered the Clerk, Mr. Carroll, to return it, with the remark that it was not a proper paper to be submitted to the Court. Mr. Treadwell is a ve