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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
their potential voices with those of the politicians, in the cry for resistance to expected wrong and oppression ; See The Church and, the Rebellion, by R. L. Stanton, D. D., of Kentucky. and thousands upon thousands of men and women, regarding them as oracles of wisdom and truth, followed them reverentially in the broad highwa in the broad meaning of that term, had become horribly corrupted by the Slave system, and made a willing instrument of the conspirators. It is related by the Rev. Dr. Stanton (The Church and the Rebellion, p. 163), that Robert Toombs, of Georgia, an arch-conspirator, went early to New Orleans, to stir up the people to revolt. T of all denominations in the Slavelabor States, and the relations of the clergy to the conspirators, see a volume entitled The Church and the Rebellion, by R. L. Stanton, D. D., of Kentucky. The common people --the non-slaveholders and the small slaveholders — whom the ruling class desired to reduce to vassalage, Of the 12,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
hout exciting the hot indignation of the loyal portion of the people. Coincident with these manifestations were the strong convictions of Holt, Dix, and Attorney-General Stanton of his Cabinet. The secret history of these public demonstrations of a desire to hold Fort Sumter has been given by General Daniel E. Sickles, in a brief eulogy of Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War during a greater portion of Mr. Lincoln's Administration. Toward evening, on one of the gloomy days in the winter of 1861, says Sickles, the Attorney-General [Stanton] sent for one of the representatives in Congress from New York, and informed him that unless the public opinion of thy should go to the principal Northern cities and announce that the President had decided to maintain Anderson in Sumter at all hazards. 4 Fire some powder, said Stanton; all we can do yet is to fire blank cartridges; a thousand bullets or a bale of hemp would save us from a bloody rebellion. The President will not strike a blow