Posted on 01/15/2025 6:45:17 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Jan. 14.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 12th inst., says:
"It was reported yesterday that Mr. BLAIR, the Yankee Peace Commissioner, had arrived in this city, and had had, during the day, an interview with the President and Secretary of War. He has not, we are assured, come to the city, and it is all stuff about the Secretary of War having sent him a pass to visit Richmond; but we do not doubt that he is in GRANT's camp. We have never yet seen any evidence going to show that he designed coming to this city.
A correspondent of the Richmond Inquirer, in speaking of the furloughing of a new regiment of Georgia militia, says: "Gov. BROWN remarked that they could go home now, but would remain subject to another call when the State required their services, which he hoped would not be soon. All delinquents are to be tried by a military court-martial, which is to sit in Macon, and if found guilty the pains and penalties of desertion would be visited upon them."
In the Confederate House of Representatives on Wednesday. Mr. MILES, of South Carolina, introduced the following resolutions, which were ordered to be printed:
Resolved, That under the Constitution Congress alone has the right to declare war, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make a treaty of peace.
Resolved, That all attempts to make peace with the United States by the action or intervention of the separate States composing the Confederacy, are unauthorized by the constitution, in contravention of the supreme law of the land, and therefore revolutionary.
The last resolution in the series is as follows:
Resolved, That we, the Representatives of the Confederate States, are firmly determined to continue the struggle in
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Southern News: The Blair-Mission to Richmond – 2
Army of the Potomac: Fine Weather Again – 2
Heavy Freshet in the James River: Stoppage of Travel over the Pontoon Bridges – 2
From Sheridan’s Army: No Military News – 2
From New-Orleans: The Expedition into Florida – 2-3
From Cairo – 3
Relief for Savannah – 3
Guerrilla Expedition – 3
Emancipation Rejoicings in St. Louis – 3
News from Washington – 3-4
Tennessee State Convention: Slavery Declared Forever Abolished – 4
The Question of Female Physicians – 4-5
Editorial: The Peace Rumors – 5
Editorial: A Glimpse of Gen. Lee – 5-6
Sinking of the Schooner Sarah B. James – 6
A Compliment to Our Courts – 6
Escape from a Southern Prison Pen: A Truthful Narrative of Rebel Barbarity – 6
Bounty Jumpers – 6
Railroad Disaster – 6
I can not believe the Confederate Government actually voted in Jan 1865 to continue fighting. What insanity.
The same can be said about Germany and Japan in Jan 1945.
Kinda similar
But the Confederacy neither had a Hitler in charge or an Emperor. Those in the government who voted to continue fighting had been voted into office.
But your point is good. Many never learn from history.
I am amazed by how much of the history you gave provided us should/ could be applied to now
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