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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d, but no insult of any kind was offered to one of the motley crowd, either black or white. The stages drove rapidly to the Marshal's office, where they were taken in charge of by the proper authorities. The confiscation of rebel property and colonization of slaves. Washington, Dec. 17. --The House Committee on Military Affairs have before them a report and bill on the confiscation of property of rebels, and of employment and colonization of slaves, made by the chairman, Colonel F. P. Blair, based upon the President's Message. It declares null and void all sales, assignments and transfers of property of rebels, and all interest therein, &c. It provides for the appointment of Commissioners for the States, at stated places, who have power to take summary action on all cases of confiscation; that all persons owing service to the rebels being taken by the United States forces coming to and claiming their protection shall be declared forever Lee. It also empowers the Preside