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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
gan of treason, to protect her from outrage. . . . She is sick of the Union--disgusted with it, upon any terms within the range of the widest possibility. The call was responded to by the resignations of many commissions held by South Carolinians; and the conspirators, unable to comprehend a supreme love for the Union, boasted that not a son of that State would prove loyal to the old flag. One of those who abandoned the flag was Lieutenant J. R. Hamilton, of the Navy, who, on the 14th of January, 1861, issued a circular letter from Fort Moultrie to his fellow-officers in that branch of the service, calling upon them to follow his example. It was a characteristic production. After talking much of honor, he thus counseled his friends to engage in plundering the Government:--What the South most asks of you now is, to bring with you every ship and man you can, that we may use them against the oppressors of our liberties, and the enemies of our aggravated but united people. At that t
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 9: proceedings in Congress.--departure of conspirators. (search)
pass an efficient law for the punishment of persons engaged in the armed invasion of any State from another State, and all persons in complicity with them. This, too, was rejected; and so was every thing short of full compliance with the demands of the Slave interest. In the House Committee of Thirty-three were seen like failures to please the Oligarchy, notwithstanding great concessions were offered. These concessions were embodied in an elaborate report submitted by Mr. Corwin, January 14, 1861. the Chairman of the Committee. It condemned legislative interference with the Fugitive Slave Law. It recommended the repeal of Personal Liberty Acts, in so far as they conflicted with that law. It recognized Slavery as existing in fifteen States of the Union, and denied the existence of any power, outside of a State, competent to interfere with it. It urged the propriety of a faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law. It recognized no conflicting elements in the National Constituti
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 I., Xxiv. conciliation in Congress. (search)
at all enactments having such tendency be forthwith repealed, as required by a just sense of constitutional obligations, and by a due regard for the peace of the Republic. And the President of the United States is requested to communicate these resolutions to the Governors of the several States, with the request that they will lay the same before the Legislatures thereof respectively. Mr. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, from a majority of this Committee, made an elaborate report, on the 14th of January, 1861, favoring concession and compromise, but not the line of 36° 30′ Messrs. C. C. Washburne, of Wisconsin, and Mason W. Tappan, of N. H., tendered a minority report, setting forth that, in view of the Rebellion, now in progress, no concessions should be made. They closed by submitting the resolve which had been offered in the Senate by Mr. Clark, of N. H., and which has already been given. Messrs. Birch, of California, and Stout, of Oregon, submitted a separate minority report, propo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
government no power to prevent secession......Dec. 4, 1860 A special committee of thirty-three, one from each State, appointed by the House upon the condition of the country......Dec. 4, 1860 [This committee submitted five propositions, Jan. 14, 1861; but one, that proposing a Constitutional amendment, ever reached the Senate.] Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of Treasury, resigns......Dec. 10, 1860 Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of State, resigns because the President refusedrida demands the surrender of Fort Pickens, at the entrance of Pensacola Bay, Florida, with the garrison of eighty-one men, under Lieutenant Slemmer; refused......Jan. 12, 1861 Fort Taylor, Key West, garrisoned by United States troops......Jan. 14, 1861 Ordinance of secession of Georgia adopted in convention, 208 to 89......Jan. 19, 1861 United States Senators Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Stephen R. Mallory and Dav
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yancey, William Lowndes 1814- (search)
e Alabama legislature. From 1844 to 1847 he was a member of Congress. A fervid and fluent speaker, he was an influential politician in the Democratic party, and became a leader of the extreme Pro-slavery party in the South. As early as 1858 he advised the organization of committees of safety all over the cotton-growing States. His speeches did much to bring about the Civil War. Mr. Yancey reported the Alabama ordinance of secession to the convention at Montgomery, which was adopted Jan. 14, 1861. In February following he was appointed a Confederate commissioner to the governments of Europe to obtain the recognition of the Confederate States. He entered the Confederate Congress early in 1862, in which he served until his death, near Montgomery, Ala., July 28, 1863. Yancey's letter on the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution: Montgomery county, Ala., May 24, 1858. Neither am I in favor of making up an issue of condemnation of our representatives in Co
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Florida, 1861 (search)
1861 Jan. 6: Seizure of U. S. Arsenal at AppalachicolaBy State Troops. Jan. 7: Seizure of Fort Marion, at St. AugustineBy State Troops. Jan. 10: Adoption of Secession OrdinanceBy State. Jan. 10: Transfer of U. S. TroopsFrom Barrancas Barracks to Fort Pickens. Jan. 12: Seizure of Barrancas Barracks, Forts Barrancas and McRae, and Navy Yard, PensacolaBy State Troops. Jan. 12: Surrender of Fort PickensDemanded. Jan. 14: Garrison of Fort Taylor, Key WestBy U. S. Troops. Jan. 15: Surrender of Fort PickensAgain demanded. Jan. 16: Action at Cedar KeysU. S. Navy. Jan. 18: Garrison of Fort Jefferson, TortugasBy U. S. Troops. Jan. 18: Surrender of Fort PickensDemanded for the third time. Feb. 6: Arrival off PensacolaOf U. S. S. "Brooklyn" with Reinforcements. April 17: Arrival at Fort PickensOf Reinforcements. Sept. 2: Destruction of Pensacola Navy YardBy Boats from U. S. Squadron. Sept. 14: Destruction of Privateer "Judah" near PensacolaBy Crew of U. S. Flagship "Colorado." Unio
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Louisiana, 1861 (search)
1861 Jan. 10: Seizure of Baton Rouge ArsenalBy State Troops. Jan. 11: Seizure of Fort Jackson and Fort St. PhillipBy State Troops. Jan. 14: Seizure of Fort PikeBy State Troops. Jan. 26: Adoption of Ordinance SecessionBy State. Jan. 28: Seizure of Fort MacombBy State Troops. Jan. 28: Seizure of U. S. Property at New Orleans in hands of Army OfficersBy State Troops.
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
8, 1850Removed from the city Willard SearsJan. 8, 1855Dismissed1857 George W. WyattSept. 18, 1857ResignedJune 8, 1860 Lyman G. CaseSept. 18, 1857Oct. 3, 1865 Curtis C. Nichols Sept. 18, 1857Oct. 3, 1865 Baxter E. PerryFeb. 6, 1860ResignedJan. 14, 1861 Edward KendallJan. 14, 1861Oct. 3, 1865 The four deacons who were dismissed had previously removed from the city. Evangelical, East Cambiidge.—The Evangelical Church at East Cambridge was organized Sept. 8, 1842. In the course of theJan. 14, 1861Oct. 3, 1865 The four deacons who were dismissed had previously removed from the city. Evangelical, East Cambiidge.—The Evangelical Church at East Cambridge was organized Sept. 8, 1842. In the course of the next year a meeting-house was erected at the northeasterly corner of Second and Thorndike streets, which was dedicated Sept. 13, 1843, and taken down for removal to Somerville in 1876. The first pastor of the church was Rev. Frederick T. Perkins, Y. C. 1839, who was ordained Jan. 11, 1843, and, after a longer pastorate than has hitherto been held by any of his successors, resigned May 26, 1851. He was succeeded by Rev. Joseph L. Bennett, A. C. 1845, who was installed July 1, 1852, and resign
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 7: (search)
rittenden did not provide in detail for holding elections by which the sense of the people could be ascertained. To supply this omission, Senator Bigler, of Pennsylvania, the able, indefatigable, and devoted friend of the measure, on the 14th January, 1861, brought in A bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of the United States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States; but never was he able, notwithstanding his persevering efforts, to induce the Sen moment. This earnest recommendation was totally disregarded. It would be a useless labor to recapitulate all the proceedings in the Senate upon the proposition of Mr. Crittenden to refer his amendment to a vote of the people. On the 14th January, 1861, he made an unsuccessful attempt to have it considered, but it was postponed until the day following. Con. Globe, 1860-1, . 361-363. On this day it was again postponed by the vote of every Republican Senator present, in order to make way
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], State's-rights Ticket. (search)
Election of delegates to the State Convention. --By virtue of an act of the General Assembly, passed January 14th, 1861, an election will be held on Monday, February 4th, 1861, for the election of three delegates to a State Convention, to be holden at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, on Wednesday, the 12th February, 1861. Said act provides that the Commissioners and Officers conducting the State Election in May last shall conduct this election. The following is a list of the Commissioners and Conductors then appointed: Jefferson Ward.--Joseph Brummel, Abel F. Picot, E. A. Smith, John J. Wilson, and N. B. Hill, Commissioners; and Reuben T. Seal, Conductor. Madison Ward.--James H. Grant, George Whitfield, R. R. Howison, George W. Randolph, and Thomas R. Price, Commissioners; and Thomas U. Dudley, Conductor. Monroe Ward.--Thomas Barham, Thomas M. Jones, Thomas Boudar, Charles H. Powell, and Felix Matthews, Commissioners; and James L. Bray, Conductor. The Co
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