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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
nion and secession Mr. Floyd was then regarded throughout the country as a strong advocate of the Union and opponent of secession. He had recently published, over his own signature, in a Richmond paper, a letter on this subject, which gained him high credit at the North for his boldness in rebuking the pernicious views of many in his own State. The committee, then, in the third place, extended back their inquiry into the circumstances under which Secretary Floyd had a year before, in December, 1859, ordered the removal of one-fifth of the old percussion and flint-lock muskets from the Springfield armory, where they had accumulated in inconvenient numbers, to five Southern arsenals. The committee, after examining Colonel Craig, Captain Maynadier, and other witnesses, merely reported to the House the testimony they had taken, without in the slightest degree implicating the conduct of Secretary Floyd. Indeed, this testimony is wholly inconsistent with the existence of any improper m
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
cluded satisfactory treaties of indemnity and of navigation and commerce with the Paraguayan Government. United States Pamphlet Laws, 1859-60, p. 119, appendix. Thus the President was enabled to announce to Congress, in his annual message (December, 1859), that all our difficulties with Paraguay had been satisfactorily adjusted. Even in this brief summary it would be unjust to withhold from Secretary Toucey a commendation for the economy and efficiency he displayed in fitting out this expees, and might at least arrest future outrages on our citizens. Instead of this, however, he persisted in his course of violence against the few American citizens who had the courage to remain under his power. The President in his message of December, 1859, House Journal, p. 207. informs Congress that murders of a still more atrocious character have been committed in the very heart of Mexico, under the authority of Miramon's Government, during the present year. Some of these were worthy onl