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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crittenden, John Jordon 1787- (search)
away property. 4. This resolution declared that strong measures ought to be adopted for the suppression of the African slave-trade. On March 2, two days before the close of the session, Mason, of Virginia, the author of the Fugitive Slave Law, called up the Crittenden propositions and resolutions, when Clarke's resolutions were reconsidered and rejected, for the purpose of obtaining a direct vote on the original proposition. After a long debate, continued into the small hours of Sunday, March 3, 1861, the Crittenden Compromise was rejected by a vote of twenty against nineteen. A resolution of the House of Representatives was then adopted, to amend the Constitution so as to prohibit forever any amendment of that instrument interfering with slavery in any State. Senator Crittenden's term in the Senate expiring in March, 1861, he entered the Lower House as a representative in July following, in which he was a very ardent but conservative Union man, but was opposed to the emancipat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scott, Winfield 1786-1866 (search)
War with. In 1852 he was the candidate of the Whig party for President of the United States, and in 1859 he, as United States commissioner, successfully settled a dispute arising about the boundary-line between the United States and British America through the Strait of Fuca, on the Pacific coast. When the Civil War broke out, his age and infirmities incapacitated him for taking the chief command. In a letter addressed to Governor Seward on the day preceding Lincoln's inauguration (March 3, 1861), he suggested the limitation of the President's field of action in the premises to four measures— namely, 1. To adopt the Crittenden Compromise; 2. To collect duties outside the ports of seceding States or blockade them; 3. To conquer those States at the end of a long, expensive, and desolating war, and to no good purpose; and, 4. To say to the seceded States, Wayward sisters, depart in peace! He was retired from the service Nov. 1, 1861, retaining his rank, pay, and allowances, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
elled on Feb. 5, 1862, for disloyalty in writing a letter to Jefferson Davis introducing a man who wanted to dispose of what he regards a great improvement in fire-arms. In connection with these expulsions for disloyalty it may be stated that the Senators from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia voluntarily retired between the months of November, 1860, and July, 1861. A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee, retired March 3, 1861. Of the Senators in office May 1, 1898, twenty-one served in the Confederate army. The Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States are impeachable for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, and on conviction for any of these offences they shall be removed from office; but no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. There is no appeal f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
similar grants to Arkansas and other States; approved......March 3, 1857 Act passed materially reducing duties......March 3, 1857 Thirty-fourth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1857 eighteenth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861. James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, President. John C. Breckinridge, Kentucky, Vice-President. Chief-Justice Taney, of the Supreme Court, delivers his decision in the Dred Scott case......March 6, 1857 Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, oods outside the ports of the seceding States and blockade them; third, conquer the seceding States (which will take 300,000 men) and hold them as conquered provinces; or, fourth, say to the seceding States, Wayward sisters, go in peace ......March 3, 1861 Thirty-sixth Congress adjourns......March 4, 1861 nineteenth administration—Republican, March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1865. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, President. Hannibal Hamlin, Maine, Vice-President. State of Louisiana seizes th