Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-01-05
Spirit of the Washington Let.
ters.
J kThe New York Evening Post letter
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says: m
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 25.
"A Union meeting has been held by the
people Of Washington last Friday night.
Unlike those held 10 northern cities, this
meeting was got up BY fair-minded and
conservative men, most of them from the
ranks of the opposition. Resolutions were
prepared severely condemning the disunion
sentiments Of Southern politicians in Con-
gress and out of it, and for Mis reason the
democrats of the district crowded into the
meeting, with Walter Lennox at their head.
and BY brute force voted down the regular
resolutions, and passed one expressing the
opinion that there is no need of Union
meetings. I know ofno event which shows
more clearly than this does the one-sided
character of our modern Union savers
There was fair set of resolutions condemn
ing disunionists South as we'll as North,
and democrats rushed in and put them down.
1t would be the same in our northern
cities-the Union-savers will not condemn
the man who the Union in jeopardy
The fact that so many citizens OF Wash
ington stand by the southern disunionist-
which has been repeatedly manifested by
vocifsrous applause, in the galleries which
follows the utterance of disunion senti-
ments by the result of the Union meeting; !;
the attempt to imprison men holding anti
slavery sentiments, etc.,-has made pro-
found impression upon the northern men
in Congress, ard it will be with the great
est difficulty that any appropriation will be
made for this District the coming year I
have heard large numbers of the members
declare that they will not vote another dol
lar for Washington till Republicans can
receive courteous treatment here-more so
than they receive at present.
The New York Posts letter says:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.
Cobb, of Alabama, was so enraged at
the sketch of him and his speech in the
New York Times that he came into the re-
porters' gallery on Saturday morning and
called for the Times correspondent, with a
big cane or club in one hand, but the writer
was not to be found, and of course did not
get the Gaming, and, by this time, Mr..
Cobb is doubtless so much cooled off that
he will not undertake to get bis revenge in
so brutal a manner.
The New York Tribune's dispatch says: /:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.
The proceedings in the House to-day ex-
cited unusual interest. The speech of Mr..
Morris, of Illinois, denouncing the Admin
istration as corrupt and rotten, and the
Presidents slave code policy infamous, pro-
duced much sensation on the Democratic
side, especially as he had entered the eau
Gus, and supported the regular nominee
His clleagues and Western allies appeared
greatly excited
No candidate, eith9r of the Democracy
or the South Americans, can concentrate
united strength. Most of the present
paris will expire by Friday, which will re-
inforce our side.
The outside pressure upon the House
for an organization is heavy and constant.
An imposing memorial from large nail con-
tractros in Indiana WAS delivered to day,
but not read. The most of the certificates
of the Post-Office indeptedness, hypothe-
Gated for advances by banks, mature on
the 1st of January, and a failure to pay
them will cause great embarrassment.
Tho Administration could organize the
House in an hour if so disposed, but it
obstinately resists,Gto prevent the investiga,
lions threatened by Mr.. Sherman's cleo
ton. That is the real difficulty.
Mr.. Cobb's estimate excludes s2O,O00,-
600 Of Treasury Notes, due on the 3Oth
June, from accounts for the current fiscal
year, which entirely changes the character
of the whole financial exhibit He simply
proposes their renewal as mode of liquid
alton. The House will never consent to
this, but will require them funded to show
the debt created by the Administration.