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Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 17
showed as yet no signs of diminution. And, though the Fugitive Slave law was still denounced, and occasionally resisted, by Abolitionists in the Free States, while Disunionists still plotted in secret, and more openly prepared in Southern Commercial Conventions (having for their ostensible object the establishment of a general exchange of the great Southern staples directly from their own harbors. with the principal European marts, instead of circuitously by way of New York and other Northern Atlantic ports), there was still a goodly majority at the South, with a still larger at the North and Northwest, in favor of maintaining the Union, and preserving the greatest practicable measure of cordiality and fraternity between the Free and the Slave States, substantially on the basis of the Compromise of 1850. The region lying directly westward and northwestward of the State of Missouri, and stretching thence to the Rocky Mountains, was vaguely known as the Platte country (from the chi
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
the existence of Slavery therein. This touchstone of the true nature and intent of the measure was most decisively voted down; the Yeas and Nays being as follows: Yeas — Fessenden and Hamlin, of Maine; Sumner, of Massachusetts; Foot, of Vermont; Smith, of Connecticut; Fish and Seward, of New York; Chase and Wade, of Ohio; Dodge (Henry), of Wisconsin--10. Nays — Norris and Williams, of New Hampshire; Toucey, of Connecticut; Brodhead, of Pennsylvania; Clayton, of Delaware; Stuart, h the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy and Slavery. An American National Convention was held at Philadelphia on the 22d of February; all the States represented but Maine, Vermont, Georgia, and South Carolina. An American National Council (secret) had met three days before in the same place, and adopted a platform. The following plank is the most essential: The recognition of the right of native-born and naturalized<
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
and voted just before, did not respond to the call of his name on this occasion. of Michigan; Pettit, of Indiana; Douglas and Shields, of Illinois; Dodge (A. C.) and Jones, of Iowa; Walker, of Wisconsin; Hunter and Mason, of Virginia; Pratt, of Maryland; Badger, of North Carolina; Butler and Evans, of South Carolina; Dawson, of Georgia; Fitzpatrick and C. C. Clay, of Alabama; Adams and Brown, of Mississippi; Benjamin and Slidell, of Louisiana; Morton, of Florida; Houston and Rusk, of Texas; Dix plurality of 80,000, with the six New England States, and Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa--giving Gen. Fremont 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan carried Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, California, with all the Slave States but Maryland, which voted alone for Mr. Fillmore. New Jersey, Illinois, and California, gave each a plurality only, not a majority, of her popular vote for the successful candidate. In the aggregate, Mr. Buchanan received 1,838,169 votes; Col. Fremont 1,341
Hickory Point, Jefferson county (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
er people on the other, had resulted in great practical disorders. On the 21st of November, 1855, William Dow, a Free-State settler on the Santa Fe road, near Hickory Point, was shot dead in open day by one Coleman, a pro-Slavery neighbor, in plain sight of several persons. Dow was unarmed, and was set upon by three armed pro-Sla, the Free-State settler with whom he boarded, hearing of his death, went after and recovered it. Five days thereafter, a meeting of Free-State men was held at Hickory Point, at which the murder and its authors were forcibly denounced, and a Committee appointed to bring the murderers to justice. This meeting was made the pretext foxes. For his zeal and efficiency in this work, the fraudulent Legislature at Shawnee Mission had made him sheriff of Douglas County, wherein are Lawrence and Hickory Point. Of course, the Free-State settlers, constituting a large majority of the people of that important county, scouted his assumption of official authority, regar
Platte County (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
rganized territory aforesaid and added to the State of Missouri, forming in due time the fertile and populous counties of Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway, and Atchison, which contained in 1860 70,505 inhabitants, of whom 6,699 were slaves. Teceived 2,268 in all, to 570 for all others. David R. Atchison, then a U. S. Senator from Missouri, in a speech in Platte County, Mo., a few weeks before the election, said: When you reside within one day's journey of the Territory, and when you on the 22d of May. This infernal scoundrel will have to be hemped yet. The Parkville Luminary, issued in Platte County, Missouri, was the only journal on that side of the border that dared and chose to speak a word for the Free-State settler Lawrence was surrounded and surprised by various parties of enemies, part of them under Gen. Atchison, who, with the Platte County rifles, and two pieces of artillery, approached from Lecompton on the west, while another force, composed in good par
Atchison, Kan. (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
ritory, and when your peace, your quiet, and your property, depend upon your action, you can, without any exertion, send five hundred of your young men who will vote in favor of your institutions. Should each county in the State of Missouri only do its duty, the question will be decided quietly and peaceably at the ballot-box. If we are defeated, then Missouri and the other Southern States will have shown themselves recreant to their interests, and will deserve their fate. The city of Atchison, named after this distinguished Senator, was founded On the Kansas bank of the Missouri; some thirty miles above Leavenworth. about this time by gentlemen of his faith, who established The Squatter Sovereign as their organ. One of its early issues contained the following significant paragraph: We can tell the impertinent scoundrels of The Tribune that they may exhaust an ocean of ink, their Emigrant Aid Societies spend their millions and billions, their representatives in Congress s
Missouri (United States) (search for this): chapter 17
when the Indian laws shall be withdrawn, and the country thrown open to emigration and settlement. By the 8th section of an act to authorize the people of Missouri Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibint: Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That so much of the 8th section of an act approved March 6, 1820, entitled An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibireant to their interests, and will deserve their fate. The city of Atchison, named after this distinguished Senator, was founded On the Kansas bank of the Missouri; some thirty miles above Leavenworth. about this time by gentlemen of his faith, who established The Squatter Sovereign as their organ. One of its early issues
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 17
iginal measure. The Union, then the Democratic organ at Washington, promptly denounced it as a Whig device to divide and dithe Kansas bill aforesaid, treaties were quietly made at Washington with the Delawares, Otoes, Kickapoos, Kaskaskias, Shawnel question was early suspected at the South. The Union (Washington), President Pierce's immediate organ, promptly rebuked tvery reliable authority, that, whilst Gov. Reeder was in Washington, at the time of his appointment, he conversed with Southe Union as a State. The XXXIVth Congress assembled at Washington, December 3d, 1855, no party having a majority in the Hotaking testimony; which the majority, on their return to Washington, summed up in an able and searching Report. Their concltution in any shape. The XXXVth Congress organized at Washington, December 7, 1857. There being a large Democratic majorixed at the twenty-third parallel of longitude west from Washington. This Constitution was adopted at an election held on t
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
no right to exclude them with their human chattels. Is it not hard, asked Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, during the debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, if I should choose to emigrate to Kansas, thof Iowa; Walker, of Wisconsin; Hunter and Mason, of Virginia; Pratt, of Maryland; Badger, of North Carolina; Butler and Evans, of South Carolina; Dawson, of Georgia; Fitzpatrick and C. C. Clay, of Ala this organization, to prohibit Slavery, should they see fit. On motion of Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, it was further (Yeas 35, Nays 6) Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to reagainst the final passage of the Nebraska bill. Only nine VIRGINIA.--John S. Millson--1. North Carolina.--Richard C. Puryear, Sion H. Rogers--2. Tennessee.--Robert M. Bugg, William Cullom, Emersonn was not so regarded thereafter. Of the Whigs who so voted, but two Messrs. Puryear, of North Carolina, and Etheridge, of Tennessee. were returned to the next House. The bill had thus passed t
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
avery volunteers from the South, while many of the better class among them, disgusted and remorseful, abandoned their evil work, and shrank away to some region wherein they were less generally detested. Under all its persecutions and desolations, Kansas was steadily maturing and hardening into the bone and sinew of a Free State not only, but of one fitted by education and experience to be an apostle of the gospel of Universal Freedom. The Democratic National Convention for 1856 met at Cincinnati on the 2d of June. John E. Ward, of Georgia, presided over its deliberations. On the first ballot, its votes for Presidential candidate were cast, for James Buchanan, 135; Pierce, 122; Douglas, 33; Cass, 5. Buchanan gained pretty steadily, and Pierce lost; so that, on the ninth ballot, the vote stood: Buchanan, 147; Pierce, 87; Douglas, 56; Cass, 7. On the sixteenth, Mr. Buchanan had 168; Mr. Douglas, 121. And, on the seventeenth, Mr. Buchanan received the whole number, 296 votes, and
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