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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock. (search)
ve policy. From all indications this policy is to be persisted in. Under the stimulus of overwhelming terror our Congress passed a Conscription law, and it saved the country. They then dispersed to parts unknown, and left the country to take care of itself. The immediate danger is over. They have re-assembled, and the first effort of the session is directed to the undoing of all that the Conscription has done. The President tells us, in substance, that we do not want any more men; Gen. Foote introduces a bill to upset the Conscription law, and the members are spending the precious time that should be spent in preparing to meet the emergency which is most assuredly approaching, in idle talk. We only hope they may not find out, in the next sixty days; that they have "no more business before them," and "skedaddle," as they did last spring, leaving the capital of the Confederacy in danger a second time from an irruption of the Northern barbarians. History is repeating itself af
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ffered a resolution instructing the Military Committee to inquire whether proper accommodations are prepared for soldiers passing through Richmond. Referred. Mr. Foote, of Tenn., offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire what legislation, if any, is required to remove or prevent abuses on the paeyond our confines; and especially to inquire into the expediency of such legislation with reference to States wholly or in part in possession of the enemy. Mr. Foote also offered the following resolutions: Resolved, That in the judgment of this House the true policy of the present war imperatively requires that the movemsolution, offered some days since, for the appointment of additional standing committees. This resolution was discussed at some length by Messrs. Heiskell Harris, Foote, Miles, Russell, Boyce, and Garnett. On motion, a committee, to consist of the Speaker and six members, was raised, to whom was referred the resolution of Mr.