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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], A speech on Lincoln 's message from a Newly-elected U. S. Senator . (search)
A speech on Lincoln's message from a Newly-elected U. S. Senator.
Hon. W. A. Richardson, now in the Federal House of Representatives, has been elected by the Illinois Legislature to the vacant rest in the U. S. Senate.
Last week, in the House, Mr. Richardson made a speech scathing the gorilla.
He said:
Mr. Chairman--The annual Message recently sent to this House by the President of the United States is the most remarkable of any that has over been delivered to Congress.
It is remarkable for what it says, and still more remarkable for what it omits to say. One half of the twenty-one pages which it covers is devoted to the negro.
No page, no sentence, no line, no word, is given to land, or even to mention, the bravery and gallantry, or even the good conduct, of our soldiers in the various bloody battles which have been fought.
No sorrow is expressed for the intended dead.
No allusion is made to the maimed and wounded.
No sympathy is tendered to the sorrowing widow and