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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, July (search)
ers, Col. Shager commanding, left Omaha, on the steamer West Wind this morning, for St. Joseph, Mo. They took two pieces of cannon with them.--N. Y. Tribune, August 1. The following order was made by the Post-Office Department for the execution of the law respecting soldiers' letters: Postmasters at or near any camp or point occupied by the United States forces will mail without prepayment of postage any letter written by a soldier in the service of the United States and certified to be such by the Major or Acting Major of the regiment to which the writer is attached. The envelope should have plainly stamped or written on its face the certificate Soldier's letter, signed in writing by the Major or Acting Major of the regiment, describing his regiment by its number and its State. The postage due on such letters will be collected at the office of delivery. Commissioned officers will prepay their postage as heretofore. John A. Kasson, First Assistant Postmaster-General.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
, John F. Farnsworth, Elihu B. Washburne, Charles M. Harris, Owen Lovejoy, Jesse O. Norton, John R. Eden, John T. Stuart, Lewis W. Ross, A. L. Knapp, J. C. Robinson, William R. Morrison, William J. Allen, James C. Allen. Indiana.--John Law, James A. Cravens, H. W. Harrington, William S. Holman, George W. Julian, Ebenezer Dumont, Daniel W. Voorhees, Godlove S. Orth, Schuyler Colfax, J. K. Edgerton, James F. McDowell. Iowa.--James F. Wilson, Hiram Price, William B. Allison, J. B. Grinnell, John A. Kasson, A. W. Hubbard. Kansas.--A. Carter Wilder. Kentucky.--Lucien Anderson, George H. Yeaman, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, Robert Mallory, Green Clay Smith, Brutus J. Clay, William H. Randall, William H. Wadsworth. Maine.--L. D. M. Sweat, Sidney Perham, James G. Blane, John H. Rice, Frederick A. Pike. Maryland.--John A. G. Cresswell, Edwin G. Webster, Henry Winter Davis, Francis Thomas, Benjamin G. Harris. Massachusetts.--Thomas D. Elliot, Oakes Ames, Alexander H. Rice, Samuel Hooper, John B.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
ns, Thayer, Tracy, Williams; Delaware--Smithers; Maryland--Cresswell, Davis, Thomas, Webster; West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley; Kentucky--Anderson, Kendall, Smith, Yeaman; Ohio--Ashley, Eckley, Garfield, Hutchins, Schenck, Spaulding; Indiana--Colfax, Derwent. Julian, Orth; Illinois--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne; Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, Rollins; Michigan--Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, Kellogg, Longyear, Upson; Iowa--Allison, Grinnell, Hubbard, Kasson, Price, Wilson; Wisconsin--Cobb, McIndoe, Sloan, Wheeler; Minnesota--Donnelly, Windom; Kansas--Wilder; Oregon--McBride; Nevada--Worthington; California--Cole, Higby, Shannon.--119. Fifteen of the above were Democrats. The nays were all Democrats, as follows: Maine--Sweat; New York--Brooks, Chanler, Kalbfleisch, Keirnan, Pruyn, Townsend, Ward, Winfield, B. Wood, F. Wood; New Jersey--Perry, Steele; Pennsylvania--Ancona, Dawson, Denison, Johnson, Miller, Randall, Styles, Strause; Maryland--
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864.< (search)
well, Henry Winter Davis, F. Thomas, Webster. West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley. Kentucky--Anderson, Randall, Smith, Yeaman. Ohio — Ashley, Eckley, Garfield, Hutchins, Schenck, Spaulding. Indiana--Colfax, Dumont, Julian, Orth. Illinois--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne. Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, J. S. Rollins. Michigan--A. C. Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, F. W. Kellogg, Longyear, Upson. Iowa — Allison, Grinnell, A. W. Hubbard, Kasson, Price, Wilson. Wisconsin--Cobb, McIndoe, Sloan, Wheeler. Minnesota--Donnelly, Windom. Kansas--Wilder. Oregon--McBride. Nevada--Worthington. California--Cole, Higby, Shannon.--Total, 119. Nays--[All Democrats.] Maine--Sweat. New York — Brooks, Chanler, Kalbfleisch, Kernan, Pruyn, Townsend, Ward, Winfield, Ben. Wood, Fernando Wood. New Jersey--Perry, W. G. Steele. Pennsylvania--Ancona, Dawson, Dennison, P. Johnson, W. H. Miller, S. J. Randall, Stiles, Strouse<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
l your public addresses, it combines a definite purpose, a practical aim, a cogency of reasoning, and a fervor of appeal which hardly belong to any efforts of mere demonstrative eloquence. Similar commendation came from William H. Seward, John A. Kasson, Rev. Convers Francis, and E. P. Whipple. Dr. Palfrey wrote July 1, 1849:— I have read your address on Peace with the most critical care and the highest delight. You have removed everything extrinsic from your argument, have guarded Sumner's Works, vol. XII. pp. 172-175. Such a union was a favorite idea with Sumner through life. Works, vol. XIII. pp, 127-130. North American Review, July-August, 1878; pp. 78-80: A Senator's Fidelity Vindicated, by E. L. Pierce. To John A. Kasson, New Bedford, July 12:— When I tell you that your article on law reform Law Reporter, Boston, June, 1849, pp. 61-80. expounds views which I have long entertained, and which I have urged in conversation and in correspondence if not in p
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
oke briefly in moving a committee to report an address and resolutions, of which he was made chairman. The address was not his own composition; Palfrey was its reputed author. The Free Soilers of Massachusetts proved to be men of extraordinary vitality; and it is interesting to observe how many of them came to the front before or during the Civil War,—Sumner, Adams, Wilson, Burlingame, Dana, E. R. Hoar, and Andrew. Among the younger Free Soilers were George F. Hoar, Henry L. Pierce, John A. Kasson, and Marcus Morton, Jr, the last of whom became chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the State. The Free Soilers of Massachusetts have held two reunions,—one, Aug. 9, 1877, at Downer Landing, Hingham, with C. F. Adams presiding; and another, June 28, 1888, at the Parker House in Boston. with E. L. Pierce in the chair. The proceedings in each case were printed in pamphlet form. His name was put at the head of a State committee which was charged with the management of the campaign, and
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
o absurdly astray! New England Magazine, February, 1892, p. 734. The bill passed—Sumner and five other Republicans and some Democrats voting against it. An amendment moved by E. B. Washburne in the House, requiring the people of Colorado as a condition of admission to strike out from the constitution the word white as a qualification of voters, was defeated, receiving only thirty-seven votes; but among them were those of well-known public men—Blaine, Boutwell, Garfield, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Morrill, and Stevens. The President vetoed the bill chiefly on the ground of an insufficient population in the Territory. When the question came up at the next session, Sumner's amendment prevailed; but the President again vetoed the bill. Sumner, just before the close of the session, made an ineffectual effort to incorporate the same condition in the bill to admit Nebraska, the constitution of which had expressly confined suffrage to white male citizens; but only four senators voted w
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
as been ordered to-day. The following order was to-day issued from the post-office appointment office: "It appearing to this department that vicious persons are engaged in transmitting through the mail envelopes having printed or written upon them scurrilous or scandalous matter, it is ordered that postmasters stop all such matter as soon as discovered, whether at the office of mailing or elsewhere, and for ward it at once to the dead letter office at Washington. [Signed.] John A. Kasson, First Ass't Postmaster General." Confederate war vessel sunk. Philadelphia, August 7. --The U. S. Steam gunboat Flag arrived at Fort Mifflin this morning with thirty-six rebel prisoners, taken from the rebel war vessel "Petrel," formerly the U. S. revenue cutter Aiken, which was seized by the secession authorities of South Carolina, at Charleston, last winter. The Aiken fired at the U. S. frigate St. Lawrence off Charleston, probably mistaking her for a merchant vesse
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Oil in Ohio. (search)
Uniform Coinage --The Hon. John A. Kasson, who has just been made chairman of the House Committee on Coins, Weights and Measures, has given much attention, both here and in Europe, to the subject of a common unit for all the currencies of the civilized world, and will, we trust, submit a proposition from his committee to the House at an early day. Meanwhile, we make the following suggestion: Perhaps the French franc is the unit which would be most generally acceptable. The gold Napnce. The false pretence that our dollar is worth four shillings and six pence sterling, when it falls far short of that amount, makes exchange on London nine per cent. premium when it is really at par, and involves other misleading solecisms. We urge all who would like a universal currency, and are prepared to throw light on the subject, to communicate with Mr. Kasson. If sufficient interest is evinced, we may have the needed reform fairly inaugurated at this session.--New York Tribune.