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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
e, passed the United States Senate. Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal destroyed by Union forces.—17. Confederates defeated at Sugar Creek, Ark. First regular Congress of the Confederates assembled at Richmond.—10. Confederate government ordered all Union prisoners to be released.—20. Fully 4,000 Confederates, sent to reinforce Fort Donelson, captured on the Cumberland River.— 21. First execution of a slave-trader under the laws of the United States took place at New York, in the case of N. P. Gordon.-22. Martial law proclaimed over western Tennessee.—24. Fayetteville, Ark., captured by the Union troops, but burned by the Confederates on leaving it.— 25. Telegraph lines taken possession of by government, and army news not to be published until authorized.—26. Legal tender bill approved by the President.— 28. Confederate steamer Nashville ran the blockade at Beaufort, N. C. Fast Day in the Confederacy.—March 1. John Minor Botts arrested at Richmond, Va., for treason to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Election bill, federal. (search)
ould not affect the composition of the House materially, and as Congress has no such power, the cry, of course, is wholly without meaning. So keen, however, is the sympathy of the Northern Democrats with this view of the subject, that definite threats of war against the national government have been heard. But there is, unfortunately, a much more serious side to this phase of the question. Legislation is proposed which the South does not like, and, thereupon, headed by the gallant Governor Gordon, Southern leaders and Southern newspapers begin to threaten and bluster as if we were back in the days of South Carolinian nullification. It is the old game of attempting to bully the North and West by threats. The North and West are to be boycotted for daring to protect citizens in their constitutional rights, and even more dreadful things are to follow. It has been generally believed that the war settled the proposition that this country is a nation, and that the nation's laws lawf