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Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
establishment of the United States; 4. To provide for the better organization of the military establishment; 5. To promote the efficiency of the army; 6. For the organization of a volunteer militia force, to be called the National Guard of the United States. At an early day the Senate expelled the following ten Senators: James M. Mason and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chestnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; W. K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. On July 13 the places of Mason and Hunter were filled by John S. Carlisle and W. J. Willey, appointed by the legislature of reorganized (West) Virginia. On the same day John B. Clark, of Missouri, was expelled from the House of Representatives. Every measure for the suppression of the rebellion proposed by the President and heads of departments was adopted. On the 19th the venerabl
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
ge. Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, said that if he understood the message on the subject of secession, it was this: South Carolina has just cause for seceding from the Union; that is the first proposition. The second is that she has no right to se cotton was king. You dare not make war on cotton, he exclaimed; no power on earth dare make war on cotton. He said South Carolina was about to secede, and that she would send a minister plenipotentiary to the United States, and when his credentians. These did not meet with favor on either side. On receiving news of the passage of the ordinance of secession by South Carolina, her two remaining Representatives (Boyce and Ashmun) left the House of Representatives and returned home. Early in son and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chestnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; W. K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
hat a dissolution of the Union was at hand. He was opposed to free debate on the subject, and said that a Senator from Texas had told him that a good many free debaters were hanging up by the trees in that country. The venerable Senator Crittendwe are. The extremists thought so too, and cast off all disguise, especially Senator Iveson, of Georgia, and Wigfall, of Texas. The former answered that the slave-labor States intended to revolt. We intend to go out of this Union, he said. I speth of March, five of the Southern States will have declared their independence. He referred to the patriotic governor of Texas (Houston) as a hinderance to the secession of that State, and expressed a hope that some Texan Brutus will arise to rid hicholson, of Tennessee; W. K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. On July 13 the places of Mason and Hunter were filled by John S. Carlisle and W. J. Willey, appointed by the legislatur
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
ress to sanction his acts, and recommended the appointment of an assistant secretary in his department. Congress acted promptly on the suggestions of the President. It was found at the outset that there were a few members of Congress who were in thorough sympathy with the Secessionists; but while these prolonged the debates, the majority of loyal men was so overwhelming that the disloyal ones could not defeat the will of the people. On the first day of the session Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, chairman of the military committee of the Upper House, gave notice that he should, the next day, submit six bills having for their object the suppression of the rebellion. These were all adopted afterwards. They were: 1. To ratify and confirm certain acts of the President for the suppression of insurrection and rebellion; 2. To authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property; 3. To increase the present military establishment of the
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
the better organization of the military establishment; 5. To promote the efficiency of the army; 6. For the organization of a volunteer militia force, to be called the National Guard of the United States. At an early day the Senate expelled the following ten Senators: James M. Mason and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chestnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; W. K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. On July 13 the places of Mason and Hunter were filled by John S. Carlisle and W. J. Willey, appointed by the legislature of reorganized (West) Virginia. On the same day John B. Clark, of Missouri, was expelled from the House of Representatives. Every measure for the suppression of the rebellion proposed by the President and heads of departments was adopted. On the 19th the venerable J. J. Crittenden, who was then a member of the House o
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
letter was sent to the absentees, urging their prompt attendance; but it was the 30th before a quorum (thirty members) of the House was present. Frederick A. Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, was chosen speaker of the House, and John Langdon, of New Hampshire, was made (April 6) president of the Senate, for the sole purpose of opening and counting the votes for President and Vice-President of the United States. Washington was chosen President by a unanimous vote (sixty-nine), and John Adams was eferson Davis spoke of it as having the characteristics of a diplomatic paper, for diplomacy is said to abhor certainty, as nature abhors a vacuum, and it is not in the power of man to reach any conclusion from that message. Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, said that if he understood the message on the subject of secession, it was this: South Carolina has just cause for seceding from the Union; that is the first proposition. The second is that she has no right to secede. The third is that we
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
t to the absentees, urging their prompt attendance; but it was the 30th before a quorum (thirty members) of the House was present. Frederick A. Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, was chosen speaker of the House, and John Langdon, of New Hampshire, was made (April 6) president of the Senate, for the sole purpose of opening and counting by thinks to avoid danger. With no finger-post to guide them to definite action, Congress opened the business of the session. The Attorney-General (Black, of Pennsylvania) had infused into the message the only portion that pleased the extreme Southern wing—namely, the assertion that the national government possessed no power to f secession, were not represented. In both Houses there was a large majority of Unionists. It was the first session of this Congress, and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, was chosen speaker of the House. The President, in his message, confined his remarks to the special object for which the Congress had been called together.
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
n [his political opponents] in perfect frankness that, in my judgment, not only will a number of States secede in the next sixty days, but some of the other States are holding on merely to see if proper guarantees can be obtained. We have in North Carolina only two considerable partiesthe absolute submissionists are too small to be called a party. After demanding guarantees and concessions, he broadly intimated that no concessions would satisfy the South; that a dissolution of the Union was tion of a volunteer militia force, to be called the National Guard of the United States. At an early day the Senate expelled the following ten Senators: James M. Mason and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; James Chestnut, Jr., of South Carolina; A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee; W. K. Sebastian and Charles B. Mitchell, of Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas. On July 13 the places of Mason and Hunter were filled by John
United States (United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
r the sole purpose of opening and counting the votes for President and Vice-President of the United States. Washington was chosen President by a unanimous vote (sixty-nine), and John Adams was electouth Carolina was about to secede, and that she would send a minister plenipotentiary to the United States, and when his credentials should be denied she would assert the sovereignty of her soil, anws and protecting public property; 3. To increase the present military establishment of the United States; 4. To provide for the better organization of the military establishment; 5. To promote th. For the organization of a volunteer militia force, to be called the National Guard of the United States. At an early day the Senate expelled the following ten Senators: James M. Mason and R. M. Ta slave who should employ him in any naval or military service against the government of the United States should forfeit all right to his services thereafter. When Congress had finished the busines
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry congress-national
tained. We have in North Carolina only two considerable partiesthe absolute submissionists are too small to be called a party. After demanding guarantees and concessions, he broadly intimated that no concessions would satisfy the South; that a dissolution of the Union was at hand. He was opposed to free debate on the subject, and said that a Senator from Texas had told him that a good many free debaters were hanging up by the trees in that country. The venerable Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, arose and rebuked Clingman, and said: I rise here to express the hope, and that alone, that the bad example of the gentleman will not be followed. He also expressed the hope that there was not a Senator present who was not willing to yield and compromise much for the sake of the government and the Union. Mr. Crittenden's mild rebuke and earnest appeal to the patriotism of the Senate were met by more scornful words from other Senators, in which the speakers seemed to emulate each other in
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