Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-14
Assembling Of the Rebel Congress
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The second session of the permanent reb-
ell Congress assembled at the State House, IN
the city of Richmond, at precisely twelve
o'clock meridian on Monday, the 9TH inst
A sufficient number of members to consti-
tute quorum had arrived In the rebel cap
ital on the Saturday previous, imparting to
that gloomy municipality more than ,,su-
al zest In all respects. Among the first 10
arrive and pay their respects TO JEFFERSON
Davis, the so-called President OF the rebel
States, was Mr.. II. NJ. I. Hunter, OF rebel
Virginia, who came to the seat OF govern
ment early in his capacity as President pro
tenn. of the rebel Senate, Vice President
Stephens, it being understood, falling back
on the condition of his health as an excuse
for his non-appearance IN the presiding seat
Of the Senate. 1t Is, however, known that
his attitude towards Mr.. Davis, his brother
Senators, the rebel Representatives In the
lower of the two houses, and the Confeder-
acy generally, is not such as to find him
favor with the rebel chieftains, though 1t Is
such as to draw nigh to him the affection
and confidence of large masses of the South
ern people, who have long seen that this
thing of destroying the Union by rebellion
Is all wrong, and cannot succeed. The rebel
Vice President will scarcely emerge from
his Georgia home during the present ses-
sion to execute the functions Of his position.
Among those who were seen upon the
streets of Richmond early on Saturday,
looking hale, hearty and jovial, was Hon.
Thomas M. Bocock, Speaker of the rebel
House of Representatives, and anterior to
the war the Southern laudator of Washing
ton and jackson. Mr. Speaker Bocock is
said to be among those rebels who deem it
both a right and sacred duty to follow
Virginia, no matter where she leads, as dis
tinguished from the idea of following Davis
and his more especial allies in the attempt
to found an empire whose foundation shall
be their own unhallowed ambition and lust
for power and place. This view is, how
ever, essentially vitiated by the fact that
Mr.. Bocock has only followed half of the
Old Dominion, and that wholly in the wrong
direction.
Herschel v. johnson, the Douglas candi-
date for the Vice Presidency in the Presi-
dental campaign Of 1860, appears as Sen
ator from Georgia, 'or that portion OF it
vouchsafed the rebels by Sherman. He ap-
pears portly and Jolly, and in common
with Hunter VIM. B. Preston, the memoir
able Wigfall, James L. Orr, the rotund and
fioribund ex-Speaker of the Union House
of Representatives; ex-United States Sena-
tor Albert G. Brown. of Mississippi; Hang
man Foote, Charles s. Conrad, OF Louisiana,
Ex-Governor OF Washington Territory, and
ex-member of the Union House; Fayette
McMullen and William c. Rives, called on
Jefferson Davis, at his official residence in
the edge of the city, on Saturday evening,
where and when it was understood gene
raj consultation was had in reference to the
situation, politically aid militarily. The
general appearance of the gentlemen of both
houses, and indeed of all in any way what
4 Ill
was eminently subdued and grave; and it
was easy to see that the absolute farce Of a
rebel governmenton this continents, to use
a somewhat inelegant though really forcible
phrase, being both fast and finally played
out.