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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis . (search)
From South Carolina. Charleston, Jan. 2
--The Convention reassembled this morning, and the President announced that Commissioners to Georgia and Texas had been elected by ballot in secret session.
The Columbia Artillery, 50 strong, arrived to-day at 1 o'clock, and proceeded down to the harbor.
They are ordered to one of the forts.
They carry with them a gun from Charleston and 2,000 pounds of powder.
The Convention has adopted as amended the Committee's report for calling a Convention of the Southern States to determine their future political relations.
This step, the Committee says, by no means arises from presumptuous arrogance, but from the advanced position which circumstances have given South Carolina in the line of procedure for the great design of maintaining the rights, security and very existence of the slaveholding States of the South.
The Constitution of the United States is suggested by the Committee as a suitable and proper basis on which to found
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Gulf States and Fugitive slaves. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South . (search)
Statistics of 1860.
--During the year 1860, fifty-one persons died at ages exceeding 100 years. The oldest of these was Milly Lamar, a slave, who died in Georgia at the age of 137.
Twenty-one soldiers of the Revolution--two of them from Virginia — died.
There were seventy-four railroad accidents, by which 1,666 persons were killed and 3,926 wounded. The steamboat accidents numbered 242 by which 3,001 persons lost their lives and 1,090 were wounded.
The fires numbered 251, destroying property to the value of $15,597,000.