Volume 14 , Issue 51

1865 - Movement On Foot Among Prominent Philadelphians

In The Daily Dispatch, dated 20 january 1865, page 2, out of Richmond, Virginia, we find that a movement was on foot among prominent Philadelphians, of both political parties, to give a handsome dinner to those Democratic Congressmen who should vote in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery.

So far, the list of such members embraced the names of George H. yeoman, of Kentucky; Austin A. King and James S. Rollins, of Missouri; Moses F. Odell and John A. Griswold, of New York; Myer Strouse, Josiah Bailey and Archibald McAllister, of Pennsylvania; and Ezra Wheeler, of Wisconsin.

General Sherman had written a letter, denying the report that he was opposed to changing the status of slavery in the South, and saying that he was in favor of putting all the able bodied negroes obtainable in the army.

Mayor Gunther, of New York, having refused to sign warrants for the pay of the street scrapers, they threatened his residence to such an extent that it had rob e protected by the police.

It was announced that Semmes got across the Mississippi at Tunica Bend, though the gunboats were watching for him.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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