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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Representation — the latest news from Washington. (search)
n Congress, Mr. Botts, undoubtedly, could. We do not see, indeed, how his claims could be overlooked, especially when we see that Tennessee is to be admitted because a son-in-law of the President is a Senator from that State. With regard to talents and statesmanship, we think our contemporary wrong when he says Mr. Botts will be the peer of any man in the Senate. There is no man in the Senate whose abilities are at all comparable to those of Mr. Botts Mr. Botts held his own when there were giants in Congress; when Clay Webster and Calhoun were in the Senate; when Prentiss, Marshall and John Quincy Adams were in the Lower House. In the present Senate he would be like Saul among the prophets. He would be a head and shoulders taller than the tallest of them. Nor do we conceive that we pay Mr. Botts an exaggerated compliment when we say this much of him. A man of abilities much inferior to his would be amply qualified to take the lead in that body, as at present constituted.
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], The late Mr. Corwin. (search)
er." Mr. Corwin was a man of more than ordinary ability amongst the representative men of the country. He excelled in humor and playful satire. He employed this talent very successfully in answer to Mr. Crary, of Michigan, who, during the Harrison Presidential campaign, who, during the Harrison Presidential campaign, had, in the House of Representatives, assailed the military career of General Harrison. His reply so completely unhorsed the Michigan Congressman that on the next day Mr. John Quincy Adams alluded to him as "the late Mr. Crary," which excited the irrepressible laughter of the whole House. Mr. Corwin belonged to that powerful party of Whigs which struggled so long against the Jackson Administration and the successive Democratic dynasties; but which finally, from motives of mere policy, permitted itself to be merged in the Republican party, and thus brought on the bloody conflict, which, had it remained fast and firm to its own old Whig flag, it might have averted —
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The railroad projected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company in the Valley of Virginia. (search)
e in producing the peace. She opposed the tariffs of 1816 and 1824, but they passed, in spite of her, and in spite of the gigantic labors of Daniel Webster, the greatest man ever born on her soil. She succeeded in passing the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 (for her policy had changed); but they were so odious that they nearly produced a separation of the States, and were repealed or compromised away to prevent the actual occurrence of that threatened catastrophe. She succeeded in electing John Quincy Adams, but all her efforts could not prevent his utter overthrow four years after his election. Indeed, the Sons of the Pilgrims, so far from succeeding in all they undertake, failed in every undertaking from the adoption of the Constitution to the opening of those sectional disputes which brought on the late war. Even in these they were foiled for a long time, and very notably in the case of the Missouri restriction. The side to which New England belonged succeeded in the late war. Th
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