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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
eral Walker, the Secretary of War, can be referred to nothing else than their belief that there has been systematic duplicity practiced on them, through me. The following are the telegraphic dispatches alluded to:-- Charleston, April 8, 1861. To L. P. Walker, Secretary of War:-- An authorized message from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force. G. T. Beauregard. Montgomery, April 10, 1861. General G. T. Beauregard:-- If you have no doubt as to the authorized character of the agent who communicated to you the instructions of the Washington Government to supply Fort Sumter by force, you will at once demand its evacuation; and if this is refused, proceed, in such manner as you may determine, to reduce it. L. P. Walker. It is under an oppressive sense of the weight of this responsibility that I submit to you these things for your explanation. The Secretary did not reply
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
of the Border Slave-labor States, that ample aid in men and money would be given to the Southern cause. And an adroit knave named Sanders, who had been a conspicuous politician of the baser sort in the North, and who was in Montgomery as the self-constituted representative of the Northern Democracy, drinking with the President [Davis], shaking hands and conversing with crowds at the hotels, and having long talks with the Cabinet, Montgomery Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury, April 10, 1861. had assured Davis and his associates that his party would stand by the South at all hazards, and that there would be such a divided North, that war would be impossible. To impress his new political associates with exalted ideas of his power as a Democratic leader in the North, Sanders sent, by telegraph, the following pompous dispatch to his political friends in New York:-- Montgomery, April 14. To Mayor Wood, Dean Richmond, and Auguste Belmont:-- A hundred thousand mercenary
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
tion, and when it was resolved to give aid to Forts Pickens and Sumter, Commodore Charles S. McCauley, who was in command of the Gosport station, was admonished to exercise extreme caution and circumspection. On the 10th of April, he was instructed to put the shipping and public property in condition to be moved and placed beyond danger, should it become necessary; at the same time, he was warned to take no steps that could give needless alarm. Secretary Welles to Commodore McCauley, April 10, 1861. Informed that with the workmen then employed on the engine of the steam-frigate Merrimack, it would take thirty days to repair it, and anxious for the safety of the vessel, the Government sent Engineer-in-chief B. F. Isherwood, who discredited the report, to put the machinery in order as quickly as possible. At the same time McCauley was directed to expedite the work, and Captain Alden was ordered to take charge of the vessel, and, when ready for sea, to go with it to Philadelphia.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
ames, Mr. Adams succeeded the late George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, as embassador at the British court. Mr. Dallas was a highly accomplished and patriotic gentleman, whose voice was heard, on his return home, in wholesome denunciations of the conspirators against the life of the Republic. which had been held by his father and grandfather; and to him the proposed negotiation was intrusted. Mr. Adams had already been instructed See Mr. Seward's Letter of Instructions to Mr. Adams, April 10, 1861. concerning the manner in which he should oppose the efforts of the agents of the conspirators. He was directed to acknowledge the appreciation of the American people and Government of the late expressions of good — will by the Queen and her ministers ; Reference is here made to an expression in the Queen's speech from the throne on the 5th of February, 1861, in which she declared her great concern at the events then taking place in the United States, and a heart-felt wish that the d