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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
had been defeated. Chapter VII Opportunity to stay secession lost. Yet four months of power Buchanan's vacillation opinion against coercion Scott Proposes force Major Anderson instructed reinforcement of Sumter considered United States Congress takes up the crisis Crittenden, Stephens and Davis in and out of Congress plead for an adjustment committee of Thirty three and committee of thirteen. there were yet four months of the Buchanan administration, from November 3, 1860, to March 4, 1861, during which time the majority of the people favorable to the peaceful settlement of all issues between themselves and the South had control of the government and power to define its policy. The folly of division among those who had supported national parties was now clearly seen, and early in November the temper of the North was conciliatory, and the sentiment in the South, except South Carolina, was stronger for the Union than against it. President Buchanan had alr
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Chinese news. (search)
City Point. Nov. 3d, 1860. Arrived. Steamship Jamestown, Skinner, Richmond. Steamship Roanoke, Couch, New York. Steamer Belvidere, Keene, Richmond. Schr. Margaret, New York. Br. bark Junietta, Williamson, Liverpool. Sailed, Steamship Jamestown, Skinner, New York. Steamship Roanoke Couch, Richmond. Steamer Belvidere, Keene, Baltimore.
The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Politics — Religious Conference — Crops, &c. Isle of Wight Co., Va., Nov. 3d, 1860. Notwithstanding the extreme inclemency of the weather, there was a large attendance of the sovereigns at the great Breckinridge mass meeting at the Court-House, on the 30th ult. Unfortunately, however, the distinguished speakers who had been announced were deterred by adverse providence from being present--ex-Gov. Wise by an accident on the railroad, and Mr. Leake, we learn, by illness in his family. The only address on the occasion was by Dr. Rives, of Surry. The Eastern Virginia "Christian" Conference is now in session in the adjoining county of Nansemond. This Conference is composed of churches embraced in the limits of this Congressional district, and represents about 2,500 communicants. Though but little known in many sections, this denomination is one of the most numerous in this and adjoining counties, and has increased rapidly within a fe