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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Advertisements. (search)
hen, will live, and he will be President. He has already expressed himself favorable to the reconstruction of the Union, and from that circumstance we deduce most favorable omens. He will reduce everything to order, according to his military instinct. He will seek to make the country as strong as it is possible to render it, and he knows that it cannot be made strong by fostering sectional prejudices and destroying the prosperity of the most productive portion of it. He is a little too enlightened for that. Besides, he is a soldier, and soldiers — genuine soldiers — do not love to torture the defenceless. Even the warriors of the savage tribes are wont to leave that part of the consequences of war to be wrought by the women and children. Such old squaws as Thad. Stevens and Sumner, who did none of the fighting, follow but their instincts in what they are doing now. But Grant is a man of different temper. He has no private griefs to interfere with his conduct as a public ma
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Literary Item. (search)
ary Stanton has applied to Congress for an appropriation to purchase Ford's Theatre, to be fitted up and used for the custody of all papers relating to sick or wounded soldiers during the rebellion, and to hospitals and the operations of the medical and surgical departments of the army. It is a sufficient evidence that Stevens cannot carry his point in Congress to find Mr. Forney, in the Chronicle, declaring that the Republican party would inevitably be defeated upon Stevens's platform. ary Stanton has applied to Congress for an appropriation to purchase Ford's Theatre, to be fitted up and used for the custody of all papers relating to sick or wounded soldiers during the rebellion, and to hospitals and the operations of the medical and surgical departments of the army. It is a sufficient evidence that Stevens cannot carry his point in Congress to find Mr. Forney, in the Chronicle, declaring that the Republican party would inevitably be defeated upon Stevens's platform.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], President's message.--General Grant's report. (search)
etters from the South, private and public, to show that the spirit of rebellion still existed. Mr. Saulsbury said that from indications there was to be a split in the Republican party, and if President Johnson stood by the principles of his special message, he would promise them the support of two millions of people who did not vote for him at the late election. Mr. Cowan controverted the statements of Mr. Sumner, which he said were all based upon anonymous letters. House.--Mr. Stevens introduced a bill to double the pensions of those who were made pensioners by the causalities of the late war; to pay the damages done to loyal men by the late rebel Government and rebel raiders, and enforce the confiscation laws so as to pay the same out of the confiscated property of the enemy. A resolution was introduced inquiring by what authority freedmen were removed from confiscated and abandoned lands. Both Houses have agreed to adjourn from to-morrow until 5th January.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Advertisements. (search)
The funeral of Hon. Thomas Corwin. Washington, December 20. --The funeral of the late Governor Corwin took place this afternoon. Among the pall- bearers were Chief Justice Chase, Lieutenant-General Grant, Hon. W. H. Seward, Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Hon. Thaddeus Stevens and other prominent and distinguished individuals.