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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The intended evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
and position of the Border States, and then alluded to the new Administration, and to the argument that Virginia was thereby to be driven out of the Union. He denied that she could be driven or impelled by anybody. Instead of our submitting to Lincoln, he was at this moment submitting to the action of the Border States. He cared nothing about the Inaugural; Lincoln could not retake the forts, if he so desired. He did not need them, for they were in seceded States, and not necessary to natioLincoln could not retake the forts, if he so desired. He did not need them, for they were in seceded States, and not necessary to national defence; and in any event he had not the means of raising a force for their capture. The idea of collecting revenue outside of the harbors he pronounced illegal and impracticable; and the proposition for a blockade could not be maintained. He did not propose to discuss the right of secession. No enlightened statesmanship could compare the secession of States, by conventional majority, with insurrectionary movements in former times. It was a new and unlooked for condition of things. He
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting from Fort Pickens. (search)
istinction in the war with Mexico. Col. Lay is a native of Virginia-- of Chester-field, we think,--and a brother of the Missionary Bishop Lay, of Arkansas. He is known in the American service, not only as one of its bright military ornaments, but as a most high-toned gentleman, loyal and chivalric in an eminent degree, and commanding the respect and esteem of all with whom he comes in contact. He has been deservedly a favorite aid of Gen. Scott, and it is only since the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln that he has resigned his commission, and in resigning it has sacrificed his all. We have no means of knowing the reasons which have led to this remarkable resignation, having no personal acquaintance with Col. Lay, but it strikes us as the most significant act of the kind which has occurred during the present troubles. Why has Col. Lay, a gentleman of sound judgment and moderation, relinquished his brilliant prospects in the Army, and sacrificed his only means of support, at this particu
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Inaugural at the Southern Capital. (search)
The Inaugural at the Southern Capital. --A letter from Montgomery, alluding to the reception of Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural at the Southern Capital, says: On the afternoon of the receipt of the Message copies of the document were immediately sent to the President of the Congress and to the President and Vice-President of the Confederacy. I believe the Government paid the telegraphic tolls in order to be advised in the matter as soon as possible. The Message was taken direct to the Congress, then in session, about seven o'clock in the evening. What transpired in the session is unknown.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting decision. (search)
Reported surrender of Fort Sumter. We are truly delighted to believe that, in order to save the garrison of Fort Sumter from the certain starvation which stared them in the face, with no possibility of obtaining supplies or being reinforced, Lincoln has ordered the fort to be given up to its rightful owner, the State of South Carolina. We are gratified, in the first place, because it will save many valuable lives, which would otherwise have been sacrificed by the foreign mercenaries who composed the garrison, and because it relieves that gallant soldier, Major Anderson, from a most trying and painful position. Fort Sumter, in the hands of Carolinians, will secure the harbor of Charleston, and a large portion of the Southern Army engaged in beleaguering it will now be disposable at other points. With the forts in the seceded States in the hands of garrisons of those States, a large movable body will remain, which can be rapidly transported by the railroads to any threatened po
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
What does it mean? The Alexandria Sentinel, judging from circumstances within its knowledge, attaches much importance to the resignation of Col. Cooper on Friday last, Though a native of New York, Col. C. is a resident of Fairfax county, Va., and an ardent Southern man in his feelings. He married a sister of Senator Mason, of our State. The Sentinel has reason to believe that his determination was very suddenly arrived at. Taking this in connection with the reports which have gained credit in well-informed sources of Mr. Lincoln's war policy, we think it highly probable that a service has been determined upon, of which Col. Cooper was unwilling to be the agent.--On account of the office which he held, he would have been intimately associated with all orders for military movements. For some cause he has resigned, suddenly and unexpectedly, as we have reason to believe. In these critical times we point to this as a fact that may cover a great deal!
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of delegates. (search)
The Standing Army at Washington. Why is the Standing Army kept up at Washington? The New York Superintendent of Police, who had the audacity to send his spies through the Southern States, now admits as the result of his investigations that there never was any plot such as was made the pretext for assembling this force at Washington. Why are they kept there, then? Has Virginia no right to ask that question? --Has she no right to demand of Lincoln the withdrawal of a force which menaces her independence, and can at any moment be thrown into Old Point, and be made instrumental to her subjugation! What is Fort Sumter to Virginia compared with the practical question of Old Point! People of Virginia, unless you prepare to enter the Gordian knot in the harness of King Lincoln'schariot, you will be dragged behind it as ignominious slaves.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
We hear, from authority that we are not at liberty to doubt, that Lincoln has removed Col. John E. Wiley, the capable and obliging U. S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia. The office has been conferred on a citizen of Fauquier county. The fact that Col. Wiley was a veteran who bore on his person wounds received in the war of 1812, in defence of his country, availed nothing with the "President elect."
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Making a Virtue of necessity. Lincoln has been compelled to choose between permitting Major Anderson and his command at Fort Sumter to be starved out, or withdrawing them from the fort. Having no means of reinforcing them, he may be compelled, from purely military considerations, to evacuate the fort, and we expect to see this act, forced upon him by necessity and not from motives of peace or justice, quoted as a proof of his pacific policy. In the meantime, it is a far more important matter for Virginia that the troops now at Washington be withdrawn, and not kept where their only object is to hold a rod over the head of this State, and be is a position to reinforce Old Point in twelve hours.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], California. (search)
The people in motion. We are informed that there is a perfect revolution of opinion in Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and, in fact, all over Eastern Virginia, since Lincoln's policy has become apparent. The instinct of self-preservation is stronger than the wiles of politicians, and Old Virginia will never, never be tied down to the footstool of this Abolition Administration.