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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
Lincoln's sister-in-law.
--Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, wife of the President of the old Union, has two married sisters now on a visit to Montgomery, Ala. One is from Kentucky, and on a visit to her sister, who resides in Selma, Ala. They are both strong secessionists, and opposed to the government of their brother-in-law, Abraham LMrs. Abraham Lincoln, wife of the President of the old Union, has two married sisters now on a visit to Montgomery, Ala. One is from Kentucky, and on a visit to her sister, who resides in Selma, Ala. They are both strong secessionists, and opposed to the government of their brother-in-law, Abraham Lincoln.
Of course, they attract considerable attention, and are the toast of Southern.
The husband of one has offered his services to Governor Moore, of Alabama, to further the cause of secession and State-Rights and Republican Liberty.--Columbus (Ga.) Times. ists, and opposed to the government of their brother-in-law, Abraham Lincoln.
Of course, they attract considerable attention, and are the toast of Southern.
The husband of one has offered his services to Governor Moore, of Alabama, to further the cause of secession and State-Rights and Republican Liberty.--Columbus (Ga.) Times.
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Celebration of Mardi Gras at New Orleans. (search)
Celebration of Mardi Gras at New Orleans.
--Mardi Gras was celebrated with universal pomp at New Orleans, Tuesday.--The day was warm and delightful.
There was a grand display of maskers in open vehicles, on foot and on horseback, with Lincoln riding on a rail carried by negroes.
Presidential Consolations
Our readers must have been struck with this sentence in Mr. Lincoln's Columbus speech:
"I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety.
It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety, for there is nothing going wrong.
It is a consoling circumstance that when we look out there is nothing that really hurts anybody. We entertain different views upon political questions, but nobody is suffering anything. "
There is not a man in this country who is not poorer now than he was before the 4th of March last. Many have lost half; multitudes, all. Multitudes of laboring men, with large families, have been thrown out of employment.
Starvation even has occurred in some of our large cities, and England itself is shivering in the storm.
Six States have left the Union; preparations for civil war are resounding from Massachusetts to the Gulf; the hearts of the whole people are bowed down with apprehensions of the coming woe; prayers f
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.a Vacation, if not the question, for the people of Virginia to consider. Warrenton,Fauquier, Feb.13
Should Virginia, "the mother of States and Statesmen," continue to delay her intended decided, if not prompt action, under the far off contingencies, until Lincoln's inauguration, and until the "Force Bill" shall have been passed, will not the militia of Virginia be subject to his orders?
And if coercion be the policy, will not her citizens be not only comparatively powerless to prevent it, but will they not (the militia) be compelled to take up arms against her Southern sister States--composed, as they are, of their brethren, sons, daughters and friends; or incur and suffer the penalty for refusing, if in the power of the Federal Government and coercionists to execute it?
If so, has it entered into the mind of any even to conceive of the horribleness of the scenes that will be enacted in our liberal, hospitable, confiding, peaceable an