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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], The last Confederate prisoner. (search)
gro suffrage in the District. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, has reported favorably on the bill to regulate the elective franchise in the District, with certain amendments, including one prescribing ability to read and write as a qualification for voting: a new section imposes a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding one year for rejecting the vote of any person entitled to exercise the right of suffrage. Virginia freedmen. General Howard's report states that in Virginia his subordinate officer's field has been exceedingly difficult, owing particularly to the great impoverishment of the State from the war, the breaking up of every system of labor, and the peculiarly strong depression of the people at its close. The aggregate dependents receiving rations in Virginia at the end of last month was 11.622. More than half of these dependents are in the first and second districts, including Norfolk, Princess Anne, and Prin
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Advertisements. (search)
Greeley on the President's message. President Johnson yesterday transmitted to the Senate deeply interesting reports recently made to him on the condition of the South by General Grant, General Howard and General Schurz, accompanying them by a brief message, wherein he recommends an early restoration of the States lately in rebellion to all the rights and privileges which they forfeited by attempting to break up the Union. We find in the text of this message no adequate reason for Mr. Sumner's denunciation of it. If the President had demanded of Congress that it act on his judgment rather than its own, then he would have acted unwarrantably; but as he has simply given his own view of the existing situation, with his reasons for suggesting a particular course, he deserves neither denunciation nor obloquy. Two great ends are now in view: 1. The restoration of the States lately in revolt to their former position in the Union. 2. The protection of their freedmen from futu
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
By Johnson's Independent agency.Congressional. Washington, December 21. --Senate.--Mr. Howard, of Michigan, (Republican,) offered a resolution calling upon the President to inform the Senate on what charges Jefferson Davis is confined, and why he is not brought to trial. The resolution was adopted. The following Committee on Reconstruction on the part of the Senate was announced: --Messrs. Fessenden, of Maine; Grimes, of Iowa; Howard, of Michigan; Johnson, of Maryland, and WilliaHoward, of Michigan; Johnson, of Maryland, and Williams, of Oregon. Mr. Sumner presented the petition of colored citizens of Tennessee, protesting against the reception of the Tennessee delegation until the recognition of the rights of the colored persons by that State. He also presented a petition of the white citizens of the District of Columbia, asking the extension of the right of suffrage to the colored people of the District. Mr. Sumner stated that the white people of this district had for years been squatting upon the civil and p