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twenty-third parallel of longitude west from Washington. This Constitution was adopted at an election held on the first Tuesday in October, whereat the majority for ratification was about 4,000. The first undisputed State election was held under it on the 6th of December following, when Republican officers and member of Congress were elected on a light vote, by majorities ranging from 2,000 to 2,500. The Constitution framed by the Convention at Wyandot was laid before the House, February 10th, 1860. On the 15th, Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill for the admission of Kansas into the Union; which was read a first and a second time, and referred to the Committee on Territories. This bill was reported to the House from that Committee, and, on the 11th of April, it passed, under the Previous Question: Yeas 134; Nays 73. But the Senate, which was very strongly Democratic, stubbornly refused (32 to 27) to take it up, and adjourned, leaving Kansas still a Territory: so tha
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
When he reached my house, he appeared utterly demented after the danger and privations of his flight through the mountains. He could not speak two coherent sentences, and I was grateful when, after twenty-four hours, I could send him to his friends in Boston. Another and far abler refugee from Harper's Ferry was Charles Plummer Tidd, one of our Worcester emigrants,--afterwards well known as Sergeant Charles Plummer of the Twenty-First Massachusetts,--who told me, in an interview on February 10, 1860, of which I still preserve the written record, All the boys opposed Harper's Ferry, the younger Browns most of all. In September it nearly broke up the camp. He himself [Tidd] left, almost quarreling with Brown. Finally, when they consented, it was with the agreement that men should be sent in each direction to burn bridges; which was not done, however. Tidd pronounced the Harper's Ferry attack the only mistake Brown ever made, and attributed it, as it is now generally assigned, to
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
Edmundson he should make the assault if Sumner did not apologize, Edmundson had a right to assume that an apology would, on being asked for, be given. (Congressional Globe, App. p. 1054.) Edmundson's complicity with the assault is critically reviewed in the New York Tribune, June 6. He received on this occasion better treatment than he deserved. On January 18 he had in the House approached Giddings with threatening gestures and words. (Ante, p. 427 note.) Nearly four years afterwards (Feb. 10, 1860), in the Capitol grounds, near the spot where Brooks had conferred with him, he struck with a cane at the head of John Hickman, a member from Pennsylvania, because the latter in a speech in Washington (not in Congress) had slandered his State. He was stopped in the assault by three Southern men,—Breckinridge (Vice-President), Keitt, the accomplice of Brooks, and Clingman, now a senator, who had defended Brooks. The House passed the resolution censuring Keitt by a vote of one hundred and
overwhelming majority, proceeded to adopt an ordinance of secession, by which Mississippi dissolved her connection with those people who had dishonored her, without the hope expectation, or wish of ever being restated, and with a purpose to hold them as her enemies in war, but in peace her friends. Another clause in the ordinance expressed her wish to form a Union with all those States which might secede, upon the basis of the Constitution of the United States. As early as the 10th of February, 1860, the Legislature had adopted a resolution in effect that the election of a President by the votes of one section, upon the ground that there is in irrepressible conflict between free and slave labor, and of an avowed hostility to the South, would justify the South in taking measures of consultation, and in proposing a remedy. The North had ample warning that it was through their own reckless folly and madness that the Federal Union would be shattered. But in defiance of this, and o
Sunday, beating his wife, making outrageous noises, and expressing the hope that Lincoln would come to Richmond and burn up all the houses. Sent on for indictment on the various charges, save that of beating his wife, and committed in default of $380 bail. Remanded for beating his wife until this morning.--Robert Luice, (or Lewis,) committed on the charge of suspicion of murder. Defendant is suspected of having murdered a mulatto, named Mike Wright, in Anson county, N. C., on the 10th of February, 1860. He came into one of the military camps on Sunday, when he was taken in custody by parties conversant with the circumstances and handed over to the custody of the police. It is said that he killed a man named Williams, at Cheraw, S. C., and served out a term of imprisonment for the offence. It was after this that the people suspected him of killing Wright, and he left. He came here as volunteer from Camden. His case was continued for further inquiry to be made into it.--Ths. Holl
tee on Propositions and Grievances: A bill to allow further time for the owners of lots in the town of Columbia, Fluvanna county, to build on and improve the same. This bill was read a second time. From the Committee on Finance: A bill authorizing the recovery of money stolen from the Exchange Bank of Virginia, at Weston. A bill amending and re-enacting section 1st of the Act, providing for the prompt payment of interest on the various bonds guaranteed by the Commonwealth, passed Feb. 10 h, 1860. From the Committee on Claims: A bill for the relief of W. T Mitchell. On motion of Mr Bass, the bill authorizing payment for clothing furnished to the militia of Roanoke, was ordered to its engrossment. The following resolutions of inquiry were referred to the appropriate committees: By Mr. Mallory of refunding to G. H. Lucy a license tax which he never used By Mr. Woolfolk--Of paying the staff officers of militia regiments called into service by proclamation of