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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Our ancestors never did a weak thing, and never said a wise one." In 1856 Gov. Wise had called on the other Southern Executives, and was prepared, in event of Fremont's election, to assert and maintain, in the most practical manner imaginable the inherent, natural, physical sovereignty of Virginia. The Governor was probably the first to discover that States-Right is a physical fact, not a metaphysical abstraction. He never did belong to the metaphysical States-Rights school — that of Madison, Jefferson, and Calhoun — but, in 1856, and again after the John Brown raid, led the physical school in an astonishingly earnest fashion. We ought to have in all our Colleges and Universities a Professor of Political Anatomy. Such a chair, well filled, would prevent the repetition of such absurdities as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Virginia Bill of Rights, and the resolutions of '98-'99. It would teach that legislators and statesmen must
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
the treatment of the rebels, I have it that propositions have been received at Washington from leading Southern men suggesting the holding of a National Convention of representatives from all parts of the Union to consider the feasibility of setting the present difficulty. It is understood that the South propose as a basis of settlement: First--That the North shall recognize State-Rights doctrine of secession, which they claim to be found in the Resolutions of 1798 and '99 by Jefferson and Madison. Second--The North to return fugitives from labor or pay their value to the owners. It is also understood that they will accept the Crittenden Compromise as the basis of a settlement relating to slavery in Territories. If the Governors do not sanction the holding of such Convention, then they are to unite in demanding of the President a vigorous prosecution of the war. The failure to supply M'Clellan's army — Deserters in Washington. A letter from Washington, dated the 27th, say