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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
Messrs. Arnold Harris, M'Graw, and Ely.--We learn that several members of Congress and other influential and prominent gentlemen are in favor of the release of these individuals.
Certain correspondence of Mr. Harris', written in the month of ApMr. Harris', written in the month of April, to friends in New Orleans, proving him to be a friend to the South, has been laid before the authorities.
It has never been pretended that Harris did any thing more than commit an indiscretion and place himself in an equivocal attitude by approHarris did any thing more than commit an indiscretion and place himself in an equivocal attitude by approaching our lines without a flag of truce, seeking indirectly for the body of Secretary Cameron's brother.
His letter to Gen. Beauregard was couched in terms ill-calculated to forward him in the business upon which he had come, and his neutral positihis neutral position therein claimed was not easily admitted, seeing he came from the enemy's country on the errand he did. But an example having been set, and the dignity of this government vindicated, we may let Mr. Harris go.--Richmond Dispatch.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 160 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 26 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 159 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Practical patriotism. (search)
Tennessee election.
--Accounts from Tennessee report large gains for the State-Rights party. Gov. Harris has probably been re-elected by a very large majority, and the adoption of the permanent Constitution is not doubted.
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mechanical skill in Olden times. (search)
Yankee humanity.
--The Lynchburg Virginian, commenting upon Gen. Beauregard's noble reply to Arnold Harris, (who applied for permission to pass our lines in quest of the body of Col. Cameron,) says:
This is exactly the course that ought to have been pursued.
It is the policy observed by Washington when, under somewhat similar circumstances, Sir Henry Clinton wished to treat with him as Mr. Washington.
The noble old Virginian would respond to no message that did not recognize the validity of the official title he held by authority of Congress.
And Mr Cameron will be brought to this acknowledgment ere long.
There is an intimation in the note of Gen Beauregard that " humanity should teach an enemy to care for its wounded, and Christianity to bury its dead"--two things that the Hessians have not done.
No flag of truce from the Government or any general officer has been sent to look after the dead and wounded.
Those of the former that were buried, after our dead had been
Tennessee Election.
--The returns come in slowly, but thus far so favorable that the public mind rests satisfied upon the subject.
A letter from East Tennessee states that there is a large falling off in the vote in that Division, that Gov. Harris gains on the Separation vote in June, and that the vote for the Permanent Constitution is in excess of that for Harris.
This fact is gratifying, in that it indicates that the people are not only for acqalescence, but are for completing the wor in that Division, that Gov. Harris gains on the Separation vote in June, and that the vote for the Permanent Constitution is in excess of that for Harris.
This fact is gratifying, in that it indicates that the people are not only for acqalescence, but are for completing the work commenced on the 8th of June, by the prompt adoption of the permanent Government.
In the Middle and Western Divisions, the Representatives and Senators in the State Legislature are all Southern Independence men.