Articles Posted by Homer_J_Simpson
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 5. The Committee on the Judiciary had under consideration to-day the case of Judge WATROUS, of Texas. Much testimony has been adduced, tending so strongly against him that it is understood they will report soon in favor of his impeachment. Gov. HOUSTON is understood to have done much to bring about this result. I am told by a gentleman from Texas that WATROUS is understood to sympathize with the secession movement in Texas. Mr. REYNOLDS, the successor of S.M. BURROUGHS, of New-York, appeared in the House to-day and took the oath and his seat on the Republican...
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. 4. Senator GWIN, of California, took his seat in the Senate to-day. He seemed much depressed and crestfallen. When his party sent to the President for aid, stating that there was danger that DOUGLAS would carry the State, the President told GWIN that they were safe, and would carry the election handsomely; and, accordingly, he did not send the funds. Being badly beaten, GWIN is severely censured by his friends, and laughed at by his opponents. The opposition men from California are in high glee. Throughout that portion of the Message relating to Slavery in the Territories,...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 3. The South Carolina members, after consultation, determined to resume their seats, and during an eloquent prayer by the Chaplain they appeared to be much impressed with the responsibility resting upon them and their constituents. As soon, however, as the roll-call commenced, the Southern members gathered into squads and engaged in earnest conversation. Republicans generally retained their seats, and seemed absorbed in the various letters and papers spread out on their desks. Extraordinary quiet pervaded the Hall, while the immense galleries and lobbies were packed to suffocation. The gallery allotted to foreign Ministers was full for the...
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WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 2. A quorum of both branches of Congress is present, and business will therefore commence at once. All the New-England, Pennsylvania, and nearly all the Western, New-York and Cotton State members have arrived. Senators CHESNUT and HAMMOND are not here, and will not be. South Carolina will not reappoint them nor choose successors. There are two lines of policy marked out and discussed in political circles respecting the course to be pursued by the Republican and Democratic Parties in Congress at the opening of the present Session. Among the Republicans, one is to propose compromises, and make...
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WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 30. Mr. COBB will not resign until after the assembling of Congress and the delivery of the President's Message. Messrs. COBB, FLOYD and THOMPSON will issue a disclaimer, to be published in some Washington paper, repudiating the position, taken by the President and the remainder of the Cabinet, which will, it is believed, lead directly to breaking up the Cabinet. It is generally understood that Mr. COBB acts not so much upon his own judgment as upon the advice of PHILIP R. CLAYTON, Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury, who favors secession, and is reported to be the author...
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The theme of nearly all the Thanksgiving discourses preached yesterday in our City pulpits, was the political crisis in which the country is involved. It seems to us very proper that this should be so. Indeed, we have never favored that divorce of the Pulpit from politics which many excellent persons deem essential to the welfare of both. The object of preaching is to apply the principles of Christianity to the conduct of life, -- to bring them to bear upon personal character, and upon the general well-being and improvement of society. Why should any form of social activity be...
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Among the extracts from foreign journals, published in yesterday's TIMES, was one from the West African Herald, in which it is clearly shown that the Slave-trade was never more prosperous than it is in the year 1860. When the traffic was legal, and was carried on between many countries and the Coast of Africa, the traders were not so numerous as they are now when the Island of Cuba is the only market open to them, and large fleets keep vigilant watch both in African and American waters. Our correspondent at Havana, in a letter recently published, estimated that 30,000...
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COLUMBIA, Tuesday, Nov. 27. Gov. GIST in his Message devotes many pages to local and State affairs. He says the view of secession becomes doubly important, that we will have direct trade with Europe, and advises the State to foster enterprises for such purposes by guarantees of five per cent. Referring to the postal matter he says he is authorized by the Postmaster at Charleston to say that as soon as the State secedes, he will sever his connection with the Federal Government, and obey the call of the State. This, together with the resignations of Postmasters generally would enable...
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Indications to-day are decidedly in favor of an early change in the Cabinet. The state of affairs in Georgia, and the position of Secretary COBB has so affected him as to lay him up sick in bed. In the meantime, his family are packing up for home, and will be ready to leave in a few days. Mr. COBB now alleges that ill health precludes the possibility of his continuing in his laborious position. Secretary THOMPSON will no doubt follow suit, in view of the late action of the Mississippi Senators and Representatives, though without the pretext of ill health....
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AUGUSTA, Friday, Nov. 23. A resolution was offered in the Georgia Legislature demanding the repeal, by Northern States, of laws obstructing the rendition of Fugitive Slaves; also an enactment of Congress for removing obstructions by Territories in the introduction of all property; such action being contingent on Georgia remaining in the Union. From the Albany Evening Journal. Here is something tangible. It suggests a basis on which negotiations can be inaugurated. South Carolina goes ahead without "rhyme or reason." There, it is not disunion for cause, but disunion per se. Assuming the possibility of coming together in a fraternal spirit...
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Hon. W.L. YANCEY -- Dear Sir: I have read your reply of Nov. 9 to an editorial article in the TIMES of Oct. 27, in which you claim to have corrected what you style the "hostile and malignant criticisms of two leading editors in the Black Republican cause, viz.: Mr. THURLOW WEED and Mr. HENRY J. RAYMOND," -- upon your speeches in the North during the recent Presidential canvass. As you have thus given the matter a personal direction, you will excuse me forgiving you a personal answer. Let me say, in the first place, that you have no right...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, Nov. 22. That a differrnce of opinion exists among the members of the President's Cabinet touching the right of a State peaceably to secede, is known by every well-informed person here; but that this difference of opinion has led to any unpleasant difficulty in Cabinet meeting, is wholly untrue. Nor are the Cabinet divided as stated in the Herald's dispatches. Gov. FLOYD is erroneously represented as defending the right of and favorable to secession, while Gen. CASS is very open in his opposi on to it; yet the latter does not believe the Union can be kept together...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 21. The policy of the Administration, in the event of secession, was again discussed in the Cabinet yesterday, but the want of harmony in the opinions of those present precluded any result being arrived at. It is thought that the Administration will not favor a Convention of the Southern States. It is feared that questions as yet not agitated would arise for discussion, and overshadow those involved at the beginning. It is believed, however, that the Northern States will promptly repeal their obnoxious legislation, nullifying the Fugitive Slave act, and will meet the Southern delegates in Congress...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Tuesday, Nov. 20. The meeting of congratulation, which was, at first, intended for a county jubilee, has, unexpectedly, assumed gigantic proportions. An immense and excited crowd is in attendance, and the illumination is nearly universal and brilliant beyond anything ever seen in the West. All the public buildings and a vast number of stores and dwellings are ablaze with fantastic devices. In the dome of the State-House four locomotive head lights are blazing, clearly visible for many miles. A large procession of Wide-Awakes has been parading. When they came to the residence of Mr. LINCOLN they halted and...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Nov. 19. A distinguished Southern Senator, now in this city, not only denies the right of secession, but thinks that President BUCHANAN is at fault in not giving the refractory States to understand at once that the whole power of the Federal Government will be used to sustain and preserve the Union. The speech of Mr. RHETT, in which he says that Gen. LANE had tendered the services of himself and sons to South Carolina in the event of secession difficulties, is being much commented on in political circles here. Q. WASHINGTON, Monday, Nov. 19. The President has...
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WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 18. Information has been received here that Gov. AIKEN, of South Carolina, opposes secession. Public sentiment seems to be settling down under the idea that Southern States, South Carolina included, will unite in a demand for an additional constitutional guaranty, which it is thought the Free States will cheerfully grant. A Convention of all the States can embody a new clause in the Constitution, securing the Slave States against further agitation, and fixing a geographical line -- perhaps the old Missouri compromise line between Free and Slave Territory. Such is the solution of the difficulty by leading...
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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Friday, Nov. 16. The city is busily preparing for the jubilee of Tuesday next. We are expecting a great invasion of Wide-Awakes. Southern news excites little remark. Business remains lively in spite of the cataclysm. The Bank Commissioners arrived here to-day. They will probably call upon the Banks for additional securities on account of the depreciation of Southern stocks. There is a slight advance in Missouri. Mr. LINCOLN preserves his position of dignified silence. He considers that his sentiments are so clearly before the people, that no reasonable man can misapprehend them....
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