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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Progress of the Revolution. (search)
forces now concentrated here is certainly against coercion, and is in favor of a peaceful, bloodless separation. The following items are from the Washington Star: All the late rumors about the disposition of the Government to enter into an armistice with those making war upon the United States, are entirely untrue. Since Sumter was attacked, it is well known no such idea has been considered in the Government's counsels. We hear, on authority, in which we confide, that Mr. W. B. Astor has tendered to the United States as an outright contribution to the cause of the Union, a donation of four millions of dollars, and ten millions more as a loan. His fortune enables him to do so, it will be remembered. We learn that the charge against Mr. William Thompson, late of the Ordnance Department, of having been a party to the treachery of filling bombs with sand, has been carefully investigated by the officers in charge, and that nothing whatever has been discovered tendi