Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-17
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State Convention 10 be held at Richmond on
the 25th inst. have been arrested, and the
passes issued to members Of the Virginia
Legislature to attend, are revoked
General Weitze is removed from the com
mand ol Richmond lor approving the call for
the convention, and granting passes
The most active measures are taking, BY
the authorities at Washington, to capture the
Two suspected assassns Of President Lincoln
and Secretary Seward.
1t is estimated that Rear eight thousand
bales of cotton have been discovered in vari'
Gus portions Of the city OF Charleston within a
few weeks.
Recent ex ploratious have demonstrated that
the Colorado river is uavigoble six x'bundred
miles above its mouth, and TO within four hun
dred miles OF Salt Lake
Amos Griffin, a famous scout, belonging to
the oath Kentucky regiment, was killed in a
scouting expedition near Wadesboro, N. c.
on the Sd Of Mach
The effect Of the assassination OF the Pres
ident by Wilkes Booihe has had crushing
ing farewell engagement at Boston. Edwin
has declared his determination TO quit the
sAge.F ..tt .
Hon. Wm. Kellogg, late member OF Con
gress from Illinois, is appointed Chief Justice
OF Nebraska Sanders will be re.appointed
Governor of Nebraska.
The sales of 3Os on Saturday amounted
to S3,7lO,25O The subscriptions to the week
were S2Ol49, 200. ..
By request OF the Secretary Of War; Mr. Jas
A Garfield, ofObio, is about to undertake. an
overland tour OF inspection to California
The supply Of cotton on hand in the rebel
States is mooted question. Some parties
estimate it at l, 2OO,O 900 bales, and others put
the amount as high as 100000 bales A
Memphis paper thinks that 1900, 900 bales is
very liberal estimate.
Extensive frauds by Illinois whisky distiers
have been discovered, amounting to half a
million dollars, by evading the revenue law.
Some fifteen hundred barrels have been sez-
ed by the authorities
A trunk maker in Boston has had hand
some new family carriage built for himself,
shaped like trunk
The following article was written be-
fore the dreadful calamity had fallen upon
the country. But it will prove the strong
hopes we had, of peace and quiet to the
land, from the President.
''Land HO!"
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 18th,
copies the first two sentences of our arti-
Gle of Tuesday, entitled as above, and
makes them the subject of fair though un-
sound comment. We therefore reply
assuming for the present, that this civil war
is nearly ended on the basis of the Union.
l. The article from which these senti-
ments are selected, introduced lengthy
extract from Mr.. Vallandigham's elabor-
ate argument in 1868, in favor of re-
union, and it would have been but fair in
the Commercial to have stated that fact
And we note here, in passing, that Edward
Everett, repeated, in his Gettysburg ora
ton in 1864, the identical arguments anC
historic parallels, in the same form.
2. The Chicago platform did not pro
nounce the war failure--a military fail
are. This false quotation has been repeat
ed often enough, and no honest man will
so state it again. 1t did say that for fou
years the war had '5ailed to yestore III
Union." And so it had. We repeat
to-day, and assert that even noW tn
Union cannot be restored by lighting, bu
only through negotiation, conciliation an,
peace.
g.. The Empire NEVER advised sub
mission to traitors in arms" The Com
mercial once did. 1t is time aOW, tina
this misstatement (for we use no strOnge
language) should be laid aside. Negoua
ting and arranging with "traitors il
arms" is just what the Empire has "ad
vised" from the first, in order to inSuc
them to lay down their arms and return +
the Union, and we thank God that this j
precisely what Grant did with Lee, am
what Lincoln is now doing with Senate
Hunter, Governor Leteher, Judge Camp
bell, Lieutenant Governor Montague an
others, for the return Of Virginia Just a