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Buffalo, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
d because he was born in Virginia, was standing firm as a rock in the midst of the surges of secession, and had filled the National Capital with so many troops that its security against the machinations of the conspirators, secret or open, was considered complete. On Wednesday, the 27th, the Mayor and Common Council waited upon Mr. Lincoln, and gave him a welcome. On the same day, he and Mrs. Lincoln were entertained at a dinner-party given by Mr. Spaulding, Member of Congress from Buffalo, New York; and on that evening, they were visited at Willard's by several Senators, and Governor Hicks of Maryland, and were serenaded by the members of the Republican Association at Washington, to whom he made a short speech — the last one previous to his inauguration. History of the Administration of President Lincoln: by Henry J. Raymond, page 110. Vice-President Hamlin and Thomas Corwin also made speeches. Having followed the President elect from his home to the Capital, and left him
Notasulga (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ssing, requiring months to find; materials hard to get, and the work, therefore, never was completed. They were at one time held in Atlanta, but the Unionists coming too near, .were hurried off to West Point, Georgia. There a strong rumor of a raid springing up, they were carried to Tallapoosa County, Alabama, on a plantation. In marching from Dadeville to Loachapoka, General Rousseau passed within four miles of the house where they were; and when his men were destroying the railroad at Notasulga, and were having the little fight near Chehaw, the boxes were hid out in the woods, two miles off, and were watched by two negro men. They were then removed to Augusta, Georgia, and thence, when Sherman came, tearing down through Georgia like a wild horse, they were pushed along into the upper part of South Carolina. Thence in the spring they were brought over to this place. These journals are among the archives of the Confederate Government, at Washington City. 3 See page 188. At that t
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ar, .were hurried off to West Point, Georgia. There a strong rumor of a raid springing up, they were carried to Tallapoosa County, Alabama, on a plantation. In marching from Dadeville to Loachapoka, General Rousseau passed within four miles of the house where they were; and when his men were destroying the railroad at Notasulga, and were having the little fight near Chehaw, the boxes were hid out in the woods, two miles off, and were watched by two negro men. They were then removed to Augusta, Georgia, and thence, when Sherman came, tearing down through Georgia like a wild horse, they were pushed along into the upper part of South Carolina. Thence in the spring they were brought over to this place. These journals are among the archives of the Confederate Government, at Washington City. 3 See page 188. At that time vigorous preparations for war were seen on every hand. Volunteers, even from Tennessee, offered their services. In many places in the Gulf States enlistments went rapid
Athens (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
the two confederacies. After agreeing, by resolution, to share in the crime of plundering the National Government by accepting a portion of the money which the Louisiana politicians had stolen from the Mint and Custom House at New Orleans, See page 185. the Convention adjourned. The proceedings of this Convention, and of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States, have never been printed. The original manuscripts were discovered by some of General Wilson's command at Athens, in Georgia, after the downfall of the rebellion. They were in three boxes, in one of the recitation-rooms of the University of Georgia. A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Athens, on the 19th of June, 1865, gives the following interesting history of these papers, which consist of journals, correspondence, et coetera:-- As the Provisional Congress was about to expire, a proposition was made that the journals should be published. This was objected to, on the ground of furnish
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
. To that it has come on an infidel and abstract idea. --Letter of Jas. H. Hammond to Mrs. F. H. Pratt, published in the Albany Statesman. Notwithstanding this arrogance and childish folly of the politicians-notwithstanding the tone of feeling among the leading insurgents at Montgomery was equally proud and defiant, they were compelled to yield to the inexorable laws of necessity, and make a compromise with expediency. It would not do to give mortal offense to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, by obstructing the navigation of the Mississippi River ; See page 164. so, on the 22d of February, the Convention declared the absolute freedom of the navigation of that stream. Money was necessary to carry on the machinery of government, and equip and feed an army; so, abandoning the delightful dreams of free-trade, which was to bring the luxuries of the world to their doors, they proposed tariff laws; and even went so far as to propose an export duty on the great staple of the Gulf S
Schenectady (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
as the Government de facto, can, if they see proper, recognize the Northern Confederacy or Confederacies, and enter into treaty stipulations with them. Were this not done, .it would be difficult for the Northern States to take a place among nations, and their flag would not be respected or recognized. Charleston Courier, February 12, 1861. Only a week earlier than this (February 5th), the late Senator Hammond. one of the South Carolina conspirators, in a letter to a kinswoman in Schenectady, New York, after recommending her to read the sermon of a Presbyterian clergyman in Brooklyn, named Van Dyke, preached on the 9th of December, 1860, for proofs that the buying and selling of men, women, and children was no sin, said: We dissolve the Union--and it is forever dissolved, be assured — to get clear of Yankee meddlesomeness and Puritanical bigotry. I say this, being half a Yankee and half a Puritan. His father was a New England school-teacher. We absolve you by this, he continued
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
first time, in Fort Lancaster. connection with Twiggs's treason, as an enemy of his country, had a successful battle with a band of warlike Comanches. Another important post was Fort Lancaster, on the mail-route between San Antonio to San Diego, in the midst of the remarkable table-lands near the junction of Live Oak Creek and the Pecos River. It is a place of much importance, for it protects the great ford of the Pecos, where nearly all the trains from Texas cross it, on their way to California. These are really mere military posts rather than forts, quite sufficient in strength, however, for the uses of the service in that region. The military power under Twiggs's control was ample, with the co-operation of the Union citizens, to hold the State firmly in a position of loyalty to the National Government, and to defy the Arch-Conspirator at Montgomery, who, before Texas had become a member of the Confederacy, wrote, through his so-called Secretary of War, to the Texas Convention
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
Carolina, 283. Secretary Holt's letter, 284. how the President's resolution was strengthened, 285. Commissioner from Alabama, 286. The arrogance and folly of the conspirators, especially of the madmen of South Carolina, often took the most luissioner Hayne was dismissed, Commissioner Thomas J. Judge appeared on the stage at Washington, as the representative of Alabama, duly authorized to negotiate with the Government of the United States in reference to the forts, arsenals, and custom hletter to the President, February 1. too foolish in matter and manner to deserve a place in history. The Sovereign State of Alabama then withdrew, in the person of Mr. Judge, who argued that the course of the President implied either an abandonmentnor, said the President to Senator Fitzpatrick, a few weeks before, January 24. when the latter was about to depart for Alabama, the current of events warns me that we shall never meet again on this side the grave. I have tried to do my duty to bo
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
following words:--We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and d ordain this Constitution for the Confederate States of America. This Constitution was that of the United States, with the alterations and omissions seen in the Provisional Constitution, See l of all military operations between the Confederate States, or any of them, and powers foreign to trms and munitions of war acquired from the United States. At the middle of March, it recommended the several States to cede to the Confederate States the forts, arsenals, dock-yards, and other publiand of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States, have never been printed. The original its readers :--The President elect of the United States will arrive in this city, with his suite, n the adjustment of its relations with the United States, of which it was a part. Letter of Franto open diplomatic intercourse between the United States and the banded conspirators in seceded Sta[6 more...]
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
The last one is as follows:--9th. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. The picture was surrounded by a gilt frame, and accompanied by a letter to Mr. Scammon from the donor, Abr. Kohn, City Clerk of Chicago. We will not follow the President elect through the details of his long travel of hundreds of miles through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. During all that journey, which occupied several days, he was everywhere greeted with demonstrations of the most profound respect; and at a few places he addressed the crowds who came out to see him in plain words, full of kindness and forbearance and tenderness and cheerfulness. Let us believe, he said, at Tolono, that behind the cloud the sun is shining. Common prudence counseled him to say but little on the grave affairs of State, the administration of which
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