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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 50 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 41 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource] 13 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 5 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], Small Por and Starvation among the Yankees — a feeling of safety — during Brover. (search)
eived from the House of Delegates, announcing that the House refused to concur with the Senate in the postponement of the execution of the joint order in relation to the election of Confederate Senators. Mr. Thompson moved to recede from the resolution of the Senate. While the motion was under discussion, a message was received from the House, announcing that the House was ready, on its part, to go into the election of Senators for the Confederate Congress, and that James Barbour, R. M. T. Hunter, Wm. C. Rives, and Wm. Ballard Preston, are candidates for one of the vacancies. The discussion was then continued upon the motion to recede, when the question was put, and was decided in the affirmative, ayes 30 and nays 16. Mr. Deuglass offered a resolution that the Senate will proceed now to join the House in the election of a Senator from Western Virginia, in the place of the late Senator in the United States Congress, whose place would have first become vacant. This r
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
rtant business before it, and ought not to be distracted longer by a matter of this character. Mr. Bucks called the ayes and noes. The question of postponement was decided in the negative by a vote of ayes 27, noes 88. The Spraker announced that nominations for a Senator to fill the first vacancy were in order. Mr. Wilbon, of Isle of Wight, nominated James Barbour, of Culpeper. Mr. Crockett nominated William Ballard Preston, of Mongomery. Mr. Newton nominated Robert M. T. Hunter. At the suggestion of Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, Mr. Crockett withdrew the name of Mr. Preston for the present. Mr. Staples nominated Wm. C. Rives. Mr. Vaden explained that he had intended to support Mr. Tyler for the Senatorship. He now seconded the nomination of Mr. Rives. Mr. Forees re-nominated William Ballard Preston. Here a message was received from the Senate that it had agreed to a joint resolution to postpone the election of Senators to the 15th of
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
f Legislative procesdings, that the election was not made. The two houses progressed no further than the nomination of candidates for one of the appointments. A joint rule of the General Assembly requires that one election only to a vacancy in any office, shall be filled at a time. The rule, therefore, requires that the voting shall be for one of the Senatorships at a time. The nominations made yesterday for one of the appointments were as follows: Messrs. James Barbour of Culpeper, R. M. T. Hunter of Essex, Wm. C. Rives of Albemarle, and Wm. Ballard Preston of Montgomery. The greater portion of the time of the House of Delegates during the day, was consumed in speeches upon these nominations. The debate in the Senate turned on a proposition to postpone the election; first, until the 15th of February next; and that being non-concurred in by the House, then to postpone until to-day at half-past 12. The House also non-concurred in this resolution of the Senate, whereupon a co