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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. Fillmore takes a view. (search)
eather — a garment shabby, but passable in a fog; split here and there, but in all its looped and windowed raggedness better than total nakedness; or to pursue the figure, fit enough to be straw-stuffed and hoisted upon a pole to terrify the croaking crows. Of these relics, it may be to said, that while there is life in them, there is a letter. We learn accordingly that Mr. Fillmore, from that very library, we suppose, which witnessed his Know-Nothing adjurations, wrote upon the 19th of December, 1860, an epistle to Somebody, which only now do we find emerging from Somebody's pocket and creeping into the public journals. It appears that Somebody requested Mr. Fillmore to go to the South as a Grand Plenipotential Pacificator. For that high office by Somebody was Mr. Fillmore nominated, and by Somebody was he unanimously confirmed at a Union meeting held by Somebody expressly for the purpose. Mr. Fillmore is urged to undertake this patriotic mission. He may smell tar and see pro
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Appended notes. (search)
have been secured by a lavish outlay of effort and of blood on the part of the Union. VIII. it is the author's well known conviction that Disunion was not purposed by the great body of those who originally favored Secession. They went into the movement, not to divide the country, but to obtain new guaranties and advantages for Slavery throughout the whole of it. The following dispatch to the New York Herald of Dec. 20, 1860, tends to strengthen this conviction: Baltimore, Dec. 19, 1860. Judge Hand, Commissioner from Mississippi to Maryland, addressed an audience of about 5,000 citizens to-night in the Maryland Institute. He advocated the right of separate secession, which was received with considerable applause. He strongly recommended that the Southern States secede before Lincoln's inauguration, and asserted that all the cotton States were determined to do so. He wanted the entire South to join them, and then to form a compact until they could be guaranteed all
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
n their march to invade the Southern states. The governor (Hicks) avowed a desire, not only that the state should avoid war, but that she should be a means for pacifying those more disposed to engage in combat. Judge Handy, a distinguished citizen of Mississippi who was born in Maryland, had in December, 1860, been sent as a commissioner from the state of his adoption to that of his birth, and presented his views and the object of his mission to Governor Hicks, who in his response (December 19, 1860) declared his purpose to act in full concert with the other border states, adding, I do not doubt the people of Maryland are ready to go with the people of those States for weal or woe. Annual Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, p. 443. Subsequently, in answer to appeals for and against a proclamation assembling the legislature, in order to have a call for a state convention, Governor Hicks issued an address in which, arguing that there was no necessity to define the position of Maryland, he wrote:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
al Convention meets by adjournment (from Charleston, S. C.) in Baltimore, June 18, 1860. On the 23d a large number of delegates withdraw, and the remaining delegates nominate Stephen A. Douglas for President. The seceders nominate John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky......June 23, 1860 Philip Francis Thomas, of Maryland, appointed Secretary of the Treasury......Dec. 12, 1860 A. H. Handy, commissioner from Mississippi, addresses a meeting in Baltimore on the subject of secession......Dec. 19, 1860 Secession flag raised and saluted with artillery on Federal Hill, Baltimore, but on the third round the cannon are seized and the flag pulled down......April 18, 1861 Attack on Massachusetts troops in Baltimore by a mob, several soldiers and civilians killed and wounded......April 19, 1861 House of Delegates rejects a secession ordinance by 53 to 13......April 29, 1861 United States volunteers under General Butler take possession of the Relay house on the Baltimore and Ohio R
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
Doc. I.--reply of the Governor of Maryland to the Commissioner from Mississippi. State of Maryland, Executive Chamber, Annapolis, Dec. 19, 1860. Sir: Your letter of the 18th instant informs me that you have been appointed by the Governor of Mississippi, in pursuance of a resolution of her Legislature, a Commissioner to the State of Maryland, and that the occasion of your mission is in the present crisis in the national affairs of this country, and the danger which impends the safety and rights of the Southern States, by reason of the election of a sectional candidate to the office of President of the United States, and upon a platform of principles destructive of our constitutional rights and which, in the opinion of the State of Mississippi, calls for prompt and decisive action, for the purpose of our protection and future security. You also inform me that Mississippi desires the co-operation of her sister States of the South in measures necessary to defend our rights;
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Caution. --The public are cautioned not to receive or trade for a note of mine, for, $1,135, dated 19th December, 1860, at 6 months, endorsed by J. Peyton as security, given R. V. Gaines and Thos. Watkins, as Trustees for Wm. J. Watkins, for purchase of two slaves. One of the slaves proving unsound, of a disease inherited, (scrofula,) I decline to pay said note, at maturity, and will require legal process to compel me. Fleming Morgan. fe 27--6t
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
From Washington. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Dec. 19, 1860. A prominent Republican, as honest as any of his party can be, said yesterday to a member from Virginia: "If you of the South listen to any compromises now, you will repent it. I tell you frankly, we look upon this matter as a game of skill, and we intend to cheat you if we can. You think the Union meetings in Boston indicate a change of sentiment. Why, any capitalist, whose business is suffering, can get up such a meeting in a day. Public opinion which has been deepening and widening every hour for the last thirty or forty years against slavery in any form cannot be changed. There is no hope of it. We, who know the fate of compromisers, every one of whom has gone down overwhelmed with obloquy, dare not give any substantial compromise. The form may be there, but the soul will be wanting." That this is the game which the Republicans are playing at this moment in the Crisis Committee, i
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. the Covington and the Central railroads — apprehended sufferings among the laborers — an interesting scene. Calahan's, Dec. 19, 1860. There is much interest felt here as to the course of the contractors on the railroads, the coming year. The low price of State stocks, it is feared, will compel them to suspend operations. In that case, there are on the Central terminus, and the Covington and Ohio Railroad, some thousands of laborers, (it is supposed numbering with their families five thousand,) who will be deprived of the means of living, and a great deal of suffering will be the consequence. The contractors are, I believe, without exception, excellent and honorable gentlemen. They will do all in their power to continue their contracts, and have already made heavy sacrifices to do this.--I am sure they are actuated in a great degree by their sympathy for the laborers, and that they will make yet heavier sacrifices to k
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. snow — no Union meeting — revenue — crime — Court. Harrisonburg, Va., Dec. 19, 1860. On Friday night snow fell here to the depth of 12 inches. So far, our people have got along very well, notwithstanding the severe cold weather we have had for some time. From some cause, unknown to me, the Union meeting did not take place. Our people generally deem Union meetings as rather out of place at the present time. Very surely our people, whilst they love the Union, yet will not do aught to give encouragement to the abolitionists of the North. So there will be no Union meeting of the people of this county. John R. Koogler, Sheriff of Rockingham, left for Richmond on Monday evening last, with the revenue, near $40,000. Old Rockingham never fails to pay her taxes; and for loyalty to the Old Commonwealth and her institutions, she is behind none. The times are very hard, but she pays her debts. A singular case of c