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Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
nd, in order that you may duly estimate the feeling of the people on this subject, that for the crime of dispensing with the laws and statutes of Great Britain, our ancestors brought one monarch to the scaffold, and expelled another from his throne. This power, which you have erected in theory, is of vast and illimitable proportions. If we may trust you to exercise it mercifully and leniently, your successor, whether immediate or more remote, may wield it with the energy of a Caesar or Napoleon, and with the will of a despot and a tyrant. It is a power without boundary or limit, because it proceeds upon a total suspension of all the constitutional and legal safeguards which protect the rights of a citizen. It is a power not inaptly described in the language of one of your secretaries. Said Mr. Seward to the British minister in Washington: I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch the bell again and order the imprisonment of a c
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
he several States of the Confederacy not wholly occupied by the enemy was at the time of the passage of the first act of conscription (1862) as follows, giving only fractions of the population for those States partially overrun by the enemy: Alabama,529,164 Arkansas,324,323 Florida,78,686 Georgia,595,097 Louisiana,376,913 Mississippi,354,699 North Carolina,661,586 A fourth of Missouri,264,588 South Carolina,801,271 Two thirds of Tennessee,556,042 Texas,420,651 Half of Virginia,55ortion of the Confederacy supplies have not been aimed at, it was because it was known that such portion would not afford enough for the current domestic supply of that particular area. It has been erroneously supposed that Southern Georgia and Alabama, and certain portions of Florida, would afford large amounts of stock, but they have not done it. They have not even fully fed those posts which from geographical position would naturally draw from them, and they cannot do as much in the future
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
upied by the enemy was at the time of the passage of the first act of conscription (1862) as follows, giving only fractions of the population for those States partially overrun by the enemy: Alabama,529,164 Arkansas,324,323 Florida,78,686 Georgia,595,097 Louisiana,376,913 Mississippi,354,699 North Carolina,661,586 A fourth of Missouri,264,588 South Carolina,801,271 Two thirds of Tennessee,556,042 Texas,420,651 Half of Virginia,552,591 Total,5,015,618 This being the aggregatIf in any small portion of the Confederacy supplies have not been aimed at, it was because it was known that such portion would not afford enough for the current domestic supply of that particular area. It has been erroneously supposed that Southern Georgia and Alabama, and certain portions of Florida, would afford large amounts of stock, but they have not done it. They have not even fully fed those posts which from geographical position would naturally draw from them, and they cannot do as muc
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
was at the time of the passage of the first act of conscription (1862) as follows, giving only fractions of the population for those States partially overrun by the enemy: Alabama,529,164 Arkansas,324,323 Florida,78,686 Georgia,595,097 Louisiana,376,913 Mississippi,354,699 North Carolina,661,586 A fourth of Missouri,264,588 South Carolina,801,271 Two thirds of Tennessee,556,042 Texas,420,651 Half of Virginia,552,591 Total,5,015,618 This being the aggregate population, whatd from our Confederate limits. I will not be prudent to rely upon obtaining the amount needed from one single source of supply; it will be well to divide the risk. Moreover, other articles are needed nearly as much as meat. The salt works in Louisiana are not to be depended on; the supply to be obtained from Saltville, in Virginia, is limited. The wants of citizens, daily becoming more urgent and alarming, will absorb all of that, if permitted, and the drafts of the Government upon the same
New York Point (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
instant, herewith transmit to your Excellency a copy of the resolutions adopted at the aid greeting, and respectfully request your earnest consideration of them. They deem it proper on their personal responsibility to state that the meeting was one of the most respectable as to numbers and character, and one of the most earnest in the support of the Union ever held in this city. Yours, with great regard, Erastus Corning, President. Resolutions. Resolved, That the Democrats of New York point to their uniform course of action during the two years of civil war through which we have passed, to the alacrity which they have evinced in filling the ranks of the army, to their contributions and sacrifices, as the evidence of their patriotism and devotion to the cause of our imperilled country. Never in the history of civil wars has a government been sustained with such ample resources of means and men as the people have voluntarily placed in the hands of the Administration. Res
Europe (search for this): chapter 29
ed cotton. It was also asserted that they did not want cotton, but only sought, under cover of a contract for supply, to find out the channels of navigable streams, to ascertain the location and condition of certain defences, and otherwise to spy out the land. A third argument was that the trade on the part of the government would demoralize the people among whom it might be conducted; and the newspapers added that to trade through New Orleans and let cotton clear from that port would make Europe think we had caved, who thereupon would decline to recognize us or to intervene. Such were the fancies and punctilios which persuaded the Confederate Government to persist in a line of policy, the steady and inevitable tendency of which was to bring its armies to the verge of starvation. The project of getting supplies through the enemy's lines thus discouraged, it was necessary for the Commissary General to cast about for a new resource; and in 1863 the experiment was first attempted of
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
artial call would yield eight hundred thousand men. A very simple arithmetical process will disclose this number. The free population of the several States of the Confederacy not wholly occupied by the enemy was at the time of the passage of the first act of conscription (1862) as follows, giving only fractions of the population for those States partially overrun by the enemy: Alabama,529,164 Arkansas,324,323 Florida,78,686 Georgia,595,097 Louisiana,376,913 Mississippi,354,699 North Carolina,661,586 A fourth of Missouri,264,588 South Carolina,801,271 Two thirds of Tennessee,556,042 Texas,420,651 Half of Virginia,552,591 Total,5,015,618 This being the aggregate population, what proportion of it were males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five? By the census of 1850, the population of the United States was twenty-three millions one hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. Of this total, seven millions forty-seven thousand nine hundred
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
s will become odious, and habeas corpus be quoted at a premium. This is the only way we can help them. In this sense and to this extent, those Democrats are truly our allies, and we shall endeavour to do our duty by them. The Democratic party in the North went into the fall elections of 1863 on the issue of a general opposition to the Lincoln Administration; at the same time promising a vigorous constitutional prosecution of the war. The result was a triumph of the Administration from Minnesota to Maine; the Democrats were everywhere defeated; and the significance of this defeat was that opposition to the authorities at Washington had been subdued either by the strong hand of lawless power or by the appliance of selfish arguments, that they had no longer anything to fear, and that the overthrow of free government in the North was complete. President Lincoln wrote that the crisis was past. The elections of 1863 had given him, as it were, a carte blanche for his government. Cert
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
ar just closed, that the number slaughtered at the porkeries within her limits had deviated from two hundred thousand head to less than twenty thousand. It was into this field, just recovering from these disasters, and almost the sole resource of the army, and the planters and inhabitants of cities, that this department had to enter as a purchaser, dubious of a sufficiency, but assured of a heavy and active competition. Shortly after the date of this report, the successive captures of Forts Henry and Donelson caused the loss of a considerable portion of the supplies referred to. The subsequent campaign lost us Kentucky and much of Tennessee, and left the Confederacy comparatively bare of meat. In this early prospect of distress a number of propositions were made to the Confederate Government by responsible and energetic parties, to exchange through the enemy's lines meat for cotton. But to this favourable exchange President Davis was opposed; he was actually weak enough to sup
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 29
ional liberty which is the inheritance of us all, and to the end, also, that history may speak of your administration with indulgence if it cannot with approval. We are, sir, with great respect, yours very truly, John V. L. Pruyn, Chairman of Committee Albany, June 30, 1863. It is true that the outrage upon Mr. Vallandigham, and, through him, upon. the whole body of American liberties, was the occasion of some forcible expressions of public indignation. A Democratic meeting in New Jersey resolved that in the illegal seizure and banishment of the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, the laws of the country have been outraged, the name of the United States disgraced, and the rights of every citizen menaced, and that it is now the duty of a law-respecting people to demand cf the Administration that it at once and forever desist from such deeds of despotism and crime. To a meeting in Philadelphia, Mr. Fernando Wood wrote: Do not let us forget that those who perpetrate such outrages as
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