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Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
in regard to slavery. That platform, like most platforms, was an evasion of the point actually at issue. At the election, Pierce was chosen by the vote of all but five States. Meanwhile a fruitful subject of turmoil, anxiety, and political agitation had formulated itself in the question of the admission of the Territory of Kansas. That agitation first took form in settling that Territory. It lay on the westerly side of the slave State of Missouri and its southern boundary was the Indian Territory, where slavery was practically established among the Indians. Most of the early settlers of the eastern portion had come from Missouri and brought the institution of slavery with them. Thus Kansas seemed at first, to have the elements for the formation of a slave State. Great exertions were made on the part of the Free-Soilers to settle Kansas from the East, so that the majority of the inhabitants should be opposed to slavery. The Emigrant Aid Society, a very strong organization dul
Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 5
seemed to see in its adoption the control of the convention by the friends of Mr. Douglas. That delegation also wanted there should be an explicit declaration in favor of slavery in the platform. When the platform was adopted the South Carolina delegation, headed by Governor Barry, seceded from the convention in a body, so that the State might not be bound by the action of the convention, and we adjourned for dinner. This performance of South Carolina, applauded by several of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, suddenly and strongly foreshadowed to me certain consequences in the near future. War appeared to me inevitable. An incident will show how strongly I was impressed. I took dinner at the Mills House with Governor Barry of the South Carolina delegation, at his invitation, given a day or two before. After dinner we were pacing up and down the veranda of the Mills House, not in a very talkative mood, and I cast my eye over the building, counting its stories and looking
Van Buren, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
omething very different from that, because of South Carolina's secession from the convention this morning. I was making a mental calculation as to how many troops could be comfortably quartered in this hotel. Oh, said he, it won't come to that. God grant that it may not, was my reply. The friends of Mr. Douglas had not the least hope of carrying the convention if the two thirds rule of national Democratic conventions, established in 1844, under which Polk was nominated as against Van Buren, should be sustained. I also learned that the Douglas leaders had formulated the plan that if they could get a majority vote for had formulated the plan that if they could get a majority vote for Douglas, they would, before proceeding to ballot further, move to rescind that rule of the convention. The balloting began. Mr. Chapin, my colleague, a firm and consistent Democrat, voted with me, we having agreed to vote together, for I had learned that his preference was for Guthrie. We vo
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
t by Missouri, slave, March 2, 1821; Arkansas, slave, June 15, 1836, by Michigan, free, Jan. 26, 1837; Florida, slave, March 3, 1845, by Iowa, free, March 3, 1845; Texas, slave, annexed as a State March 1, 1845, by Wisconsin, free, March 3, 1847. The annexation of Texas brought on the Mexican War, on a question of boundary betweenTexas brought on the Mexican War, on a question of boundary between Texas and Mexico. This war resulted in the admission of California as a free State, which was carved out of Mexican territory acquired by the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. The balance thus established in the Senate and in the House as against slavery, it was patent, must remain forever. This condition of things in Congress waTexas and Mexico. This war resulted in the admission of California as a free State, which was carved out of Mexican territory acquired by the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. The balance thus established in the Senate and in the House as against slavery, it was patent, must remain forever. This condition of things in Congress was the controlling cause of secession. In 1848 the Free-Soilers, as the abolition party named themselves, made a considerable show of power by the nomination of Martin Van Buren for President of the United States, upon a Free-Soil platform, which prohibited thereafterwards the admission of any State which had established the inst
Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
coming election should prove disastrous to the Democracy, and if a Republican President, presumably Seward, should be elected. In that event the most thoughtful were persuaded that war would follow, but of what magnitude none could foresee. Among the returning delegates was George F. Shepley, of Maine, who afterwards went with me to Ship Island in command of a regiment, became a brigadier-general, and died a Circuit Court Judge of the United States. As we were crossing the Potomac from Acquia Creek, he turned to me and said: Butler, when we cross the Potomac again we shall be carrying muskets on our shoulders; and I replied: That is only too likely to be the fact. The convention met in Baltimore, on the 18th of June, in accordance with its adjournment. When it assembled it appeared that the places of the seceding delegates from the South had been filled by the adherents of Judge Douglas. This gave him a decided majority, although by no means the necessary two thirds. The two t
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
id,--Well, you will vote for me? Yes, because I shall vote according to what I believe to be the views of my constituents. How many times do you want me to vote for you before I may change my vote? Oh, said he, three times will be enough. Well, Judge, I said, laughing, I will do better than that; I will vote for you five times, and then feel at liberty to change. Oh, said he, that will be more than enough, and we parted. My personal preference for President was Guthrie of Kentucky, who had been Secretary of the Treasury during Pierce's administration. Being well acquainted with him I had great reverence for him as a clear-headed man, of quick perceptions, of careful and conservative reflections upon all subjects, and of a well-balanced mind. And I further knew that he looked upon the preservation of the Union as infinitely beyond any question in regard to slavery, and that he was willing to sustain slavery but not at the expense of the Union. I have never seen any
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ine, as a free State, was to be taken from Massachusetts, and Missouri, as a slave State, from the land, and led by William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts. It spread rapidly over the whole country organization duly incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, sent into that Territory great numberenate I had occasion, in behalf of the State of Massachusetts, to converse with him upon the question whether Massachusetts should be paid the interest on the war expenses incurred by her in 1812, whoops were wanted by the United States, and Massachusetts was called upon by the President to furnisnd marched them. And the Supreme Court of Massachusetts sustained the governor,--a decision which arty put in nomination their candidates in Massachusetts, and I accepted the candidature for the ofnit against you. I can answer at least for Massachusetts; she is good for ten thousand men to march at once against armed secession. Massachusetts is not such a fool. If your State has tell tho[6 more...]
) (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
hen had occasion to learn his character and his ability. He was not an original disunionist, but felt bound to follow his State. He himself told me this in December, 1860. For these reasons I voted for him fifty-seven times in that convention, and then the convention adjourned without any break in the votes. Near the beginning of the voting, when Douglas was within one vote of a majority, one of Douglas' friends came across the hall to our delegation and said: Who here is voting for Jeff Davis? A vote for Douglas which will give him a majority is worth $25,000. I said to him: Sir, it takes two of us here to carry a vote, as you know. Here is my colleague in voting, Mr. Chapin; he is worth a couple of millions, or more. Perhaps you can prevail upon him, if you would like to try. That conversation went no further. For these votes for Jefferson Davis I have been criticised and abused for more than thirty years, in every form of words that characterizes calumny. Yet, up to
Oregon (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
perty on the high seas, in the Territories, and wherever its Constitutional authority might extend. The committee was divided upon these propositions, sixteen free States advocating the Douglas doctrine, and fifteen slave States, together with Oregon and California, dissenting. While the consultation was going on, three gentlemen entered the committee-room and announced themselves a committee from a caucus of the friends of Judge Douglas, with a resolution which his friends desired to be rep My proposition was voted down in the committee by seventeen States to sixteen. The Douglas propositions were voted down by seventeen States, and the other propositions were carried by seventeen States,--fifteen slave States and two free States, Oregon and California. What became of the resolutions in the convention I have already stated. I have also given the report adopted at Baltimore by the Breckenridge convention, and the only change made in the resolutions of the Breckenridge conventi
Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Methodist-Episcopal Church into a Northern and a Southern organization. It was also evident that at least six of the Southern States would secede if the coming election should prove disastrous to the Democracy, and if a Republican President, presumably Seward, should be elected. In that event the most thoughtful were persuaded that war would follow, but of what magnitude none could foresee. Among the returning delegates was George F. Shepley, of Maine, who afterwards went with me to Ship Island in command of a regiment, became a brigadier-general, and died a Circuit Court Judge of the United States. As we were crossing the Potomac from Acquia Creek, he turned to me and said: Butler, when we cross the Potomac again we shall be carrying muskets on our shoulders; and I replied: That is only too likely to be the fact. The convention met in Baltimore, on the 18th of June, in accordance with its adjournment. When it assembled it appeared that the places of the seceding delegates
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