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been met, not by an open avowal of coercive purposes, but by evasion, prevarication, and perfidy. The agreement of one administration to maintain the status quo at the time when the question arose, was violated in December by the removal of the garrison from its original position to the occupancy of a stronger. Another attempt was made to violate it, in January, by the introduction of troops concealed below the deck of the steamer Star of the West, See the report of her commander, Captain McGowan, who says he took on board, in the harbor of New York, four officers and two hundred soldiers. Arriving off Charleston, he says The soldiers were now all put below, and no one allowed on deck except our own crew. but this was thwarted by the vigilance of the state service. The protracted course of fraud and prevarication practiced by Lincoln's administration in the months of March and April has been fully exhibited. It was evident that no confidence whatever could be reposed in any p
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
1, 392, 395. Louisiana. Admission, 62. Ordinance of secession, 189. Territory, 7. Admission of slaves, 6, 9. Purchase, 8, 60, 154. Lovejoy, —, 66. Lovell, Captain, 271. Lowndes, —, 2. Lyman, Theodore, 62. Lyon, Gen., Nathaniel, 363, 364, 365, 368, 369. Seizure of Camp Jackson, 356. M McClellan, Maj.-Gen. George B., 293, 319, 321, 391,400. McCulloch, General, 351, 368, 369, 371. McDowell, General, 299, 308, 319, 320, 328. McDuffie, —, 431. McGowan, Captain, 251. Macon, Nathaniel, 9. Madison, James, 19, 48, 57, 86, 89, 94, 103, 109, 112, 117, 127, 135, 136, 138-39, 147, 161,219. Advocation of U. S. Constitution, 87, 94, 105-06, 113-14, 144. Remarks on sovereignty, 122. Opposition to armed force against states, 150. Extracts from speech on sectional inter-ests, 158. Drawing of Virginia resolutions, 160-61. Magoffin, Gov. B. (of Kentucky). Correspondence with Lincoln and Davis on status of Kentucky, 333-36. Reply to U. S. cal<