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Chase (search for this): chapter 2
nd legislated accordingly. Acting upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Chase), Congress authorized a loan of $250,000,000, for which bonds and Treasurynotes were to be iss was also made for levying a tax on the excess of all incomes above eight hundred dollars; but Mr. Chase's suggestion concerning excise duties, and other taxes on special articles of personal propertlus earnings of the loyal people amounted to over $400,000,000. In the month of September, Mr. Chase sent forth a patriotic appeal to the people, in behalf of the subscription to the authorized loan. The war, said Mr. Chase, made necessary by insurrection, and reluctantly accepted by the Government, must be prosecuted with all possible vigor, until the restoration of the just authority ofcasion offers, hereafter notice the working of the Treasury Department under the management of Mr. Chase. When Congress had finished the business for which they were called together, they adjourne
May 21st, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 2
t Washington, and armies were contending along the borders of Bull's Run, the Third Session of the so-called Provisional Congress of the conspirators (who, as we have seen, had left the Senate-Chamber of the Capitol of Alabama, at Montgomery, May 21, 1861. wherein their Confederacy was formed) was commenced in the Capitol of Virginia, at Richmond, on the 20th of July. See page 547, volume I. There was a full attendance. The members assembled at noon, and were called to order by Howell Cobb,y belonging to an alien enemy; secondly, what was the character of such property, and what disposition had been made of any profit, interest, or rent accruing from the use thereof; thirdly, whether the citizen so questioned had, since the 21st day of May, 1861, been indebted to such alien enemy or enemies, and if so to what amount, and to what extent the debts had been discharged, and also to give the names of the creditors; fourthly, whether he knew of any property or interest belonging to such
John H. Winder (search for this): chapter 2
res of arms, 25. prisoners taken at Bull's Run, in Richmond tobacco Warehouse prison and commissary Winder, 26.--Richmond prison Association kind women in Richmond, 27. object of the War declarely for the unexpected captives. On the following morning the officers were waited upon by John H. Winder, a stout, gray-haired man, from Maryland, and lately a lieutenant-colonel, by brevet, in the was signed by the officers, and was forwarded. and a considerable number of men, somewhat John H. Winder. distinguished in the political world, visited Mr. Ely, and made abundant promises of aid, n the 9th of November, 1861, Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of War, instructed General Winder to select by lot from among the prisoners of war of the highest rank one who was to be confio treated a like number of prisoners of war captured by them at sea. This order was read by General Winder, in the presence of seventy-five captive officers, in the old Tobacco Warehouse, in Richmond
Henry Wilson (search for this): chapter 2
h our agency. . . . . I warn Southern gentlemen that if this war is to continue, there will be a time when my friend from New York [Mr. Diven] will see it declared by this free nation that every bondsman in the South-belonging to a rebel, recollect; I confine it to them-shall be called upon to aid us in war against their masters, and to restore this Union. Congressional Globe, Aug. 2, 1861; History of the Anti-slavery Measuzres of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, by Senator Henry Wilson, chapter I. The bill was recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary, and on the following day Aug. 8, 1861. it was reported back with Trumbull's amendment so modified as to include only those slaves whose labor for insurrectionary purposes was employed in any military or naval service against the Government and authority of the United States. With the amendment so modified, the bill was passed by a vote of 60 against 48. When it was returned to the Senate, it was concurred in,,
1866 AD (search for this): chapter 2
gned, Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America, hereby request all whom it May concern, to permit safely and freely to pass, a---B---, a citizen of the Confederate States of America, and in case of need to give him all lawful aid and protection. given under my hand and the impression of the seal of the Department of State, at the City of [seal.] Montgomery, May 20, 1861. Robert Toombs, Secretary of State. while on a visit to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the spring of 1866, the writer met a resident of Wilmington and a native of North Carolina, who had been employed in the secret service of the National Government during a portion of the war, with the commission of colonel, and in command of a regiment of 850 spies, who were scattered over the Confederacy. He also entered the service of the Confederacy as a spy, in order that he might work more efficiently for his Government, and was furnished with a pass like the above, on the margin of which, it should have
John A. Dix (search for this): chapter 2
e of Major-General Robert Patterson, on the 27th, when his term of duty would expire; and General N. P. Banks, then in command at Baltimore, was directed to take his place in charge of the Department of the Shenandoah, he being relieved by General John A. Dix. There was a new arrangement of Military Departments, The counties of Washington and Alleghany, in Maryland, were added to the Department of the Shenandoah, created on the 19th of July, with Headquarters in the field; and the remainderen, well organized and offered, equipped and disciplined. Of these, full seventy-five thousand were then in a condition to be placed in column for active operations. The entire force under McClellan's command, at that time, including those under Dix, at Baltimore, was one hundred and fifty-two thousand men, of whom between eight and nine thousand were sick or absent. This number was continually increased, until, on the first of March, 1862, when the army was put in motion, its grand total wa
Thaddeus Stevens (search for this): chapter 2
y was immovable alarm of the conspirators, 22. General McClellan at the head of the Army of the Potomac reorganization of that Army, 23. the defenses of Washington, 24. purchase of arms for the Government domestic Manufactures of arms, 25. prisoners taken at Bull's Run, in Richmond tobacco Warehouse prison and commissary Winder, 26.--Richmond prison Association kind women in Richmond, 27. object of the War declared by Congress measures for crushing the rebellion opposed, 28 Thaddeus Stevens's warnings peace proposition, 29. a National Loan authorized, 30. appeal of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the response the Provisional Congress of the conspirators, 31. Jefferson Davis's Misstatements, 32. determination of Davis and his fellow conspirators to wage War vigorously confiscations, 33. protection of pirates Davis's so-called Departments, and their heads, 34. persecution of Union men, 35. outrages in East Tennessee, 36. Brownlow and other Loyalists hunted b
John C. Breckinridge (search for this): chapter 2
an time the battle at Bull's Run was fought. Notwithstanding the National Capital was filled with fugitives from a shattered army, and it was believed by many that the seat of Government was at the mercy o. its enemies, Congress, on Monday, deliberated as calmly as if assured of perfect safety. Mr. Crittenden's resolution was adopted by a vote of 117 to 2; and two days afterwards, July 24, 1861. one identical with it passed the Senate by a vote almost as decisive. The negatives were Breckinridge and Powell, of Kentucky; Johnson and Polk, of Missouri; and Trumbull, of Illinois. The latter opposed it because of the particular wording of the first clause, and said, the revolt was occasioned, in my opinion, by people who are not here, nor in this vicinity. It was started in South Carolina. I think the resolution limits it to a class of persons [those in arms around the Capital ] who were not the originators of this Rebellion. It was such a solemn declaration of the Government th
Andrew Johnson (search for this): chapter 2
g officer will be present to muster and inspect them. F. N. Mcnairy. H. H. Harris. Bloodhound. camp Comfort, Campbell co., Tenn., Nov. 16. Among the most prominent of the East Tennessee Loyalists, who suffered persecution, were Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard, members of Congress, and Rev. W. G. Brownlow, D. D., a Methodist preacher, and editor of the Knoxville Whig. See page 85, volume I. Brownlow's fearless spirit, caustic pen, social position, and public relations through er Loyalists were set forth by Colonel Wood in a letter to Benjamin, Nov. 20, 1861. in which he declared that the sentiment of the inhabitants in East Tennessee was hostile to the Confederate government, and that the people were slaves to Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard. To release the prisoners, he said, is ruinous. To convict them before a court is next to an impossibility. The bridge-burners and spies ought to be tried at once. This letter excited the brutal instincts of Benjamin,
July 22nd (search for this): chapter 2
on of property, that it was not allowed to be published within the bounds of the Confederacy. The writer was so informed by Southern men of intelligence, and that they never heard of the resolution until the war had ceased; also that, had its declarations been known, multitudes would have paused in their rebellious career, and the terrible desolation of the South might have been prevented. This was what the conspirators, who had resolved on rule or ruin, justly feared. On the same day July 22. the House of Representatives, by an almost unanimous vote, anticipated the wishes of the loyal people by declaring that the maintenance of the Constitution, the preservation of the Union, and the enforcement of the laws are sacred trusts which must be executed; that no disaster shall discourage us from the most ample performance of this high duty; and that we pledge to the country and the world the employment of every resource, national and individual, for the suppression, overthrow, and p
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