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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], James River and Kanawha Company. (search)
Congressional. Washington, Jan. 7. --Senate.--Mr. Clay, of Alabama, appeared and took his seat. The resignation of Senator Hamlin, of Me., (now elected Vice President,) to take effect on Monday next, was received and read. The admission of Kansas and the Pacific Railroad bill were postponed, and Mr. Crittenden resolutions called up. Mr. Crittenden advocated his plan. If Congress could not settle matters, the people could give them instructions, and there would be no humiliation in obeying them. It was a question of national existence. Would the Republicans encounter civil war rather than deviate a hair's breadth from their particular dogmas. He appealed in the most affecting language to both sides. Mr. Toombs, of Ga., responded. He said the Republicans had been sowing dragons, and would raise a crop of armed men. The Union was already dissolved, for the cause of South Carolina was the cause of the whole South.--The South had appealed to the fraternity
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the President and the South Carolina Commissioners. (search)
eparate legislative actions, denying to the people of the Southern States their Constitutional rights; and, whereas, a sectional party, known as the Black Republican party, has, in a recent election, elected Lincoln to the office of President and Hamlin to the office of Vice President of these United States, who hold that the Constitution of the United States does not recognize property in slaves, and that the Government should prevent its extension into the common Territories of the United Statf the United States does not recognize property in slaves, and that the Government should prevent its extension into the common Territories of the United States, and that the power of the Government should be so exercised that slavery should in time be exterminated: Therefore be it. Resolved, That the State of Alabama will not submit to the administration of Lincoln and Hamlin as President and Vice President of the United States, upon the principles referred to in the foregoing preamble.