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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ing information with reference to a subject upon which I addressed the War Department, but received no answer. I want a disclosure made with reference to certain facts, of which I am myself perfectly satisfied. I have information, direct from Port Royal, that the slaves who have been taken mostly all desire to return to their masters, and are prohibited from doing so by the military authorities governing them. I have the assurance that when some of these slaves had attempted to leave the campg to control the Executive through legislation in Congress. I hope, therefore that both amendments will be voted down. Mr. Fessenden, (rep.,) of Me.--I ask the gentleman from Kentucky. (Mr. Wickliffe,) what assurance he has that slaves at Port Royal, who desired to return, and were not permitted to do so, were not the slaves of rebel lenders, and wanted to return that they might be used to promote this rebellion? Mr. Wickliffe--I do not know whether those eight negroes who were killed