d Georgia.
Corinth was indefensible.
It was a wretched site for a camp, utterly destitute of water, good or bad, and what little could be obtained, was scooped up from the sand, or from pools fed by occasional rains.
The evacuation was commenced on the 30th of May.
Remaining in rear of the Tuscumbia and its affluents, some six miles from Corinth, long enough to collect stragglers, Gen. Beauregard resumed his march, concentrating his main forces at Baldwin.
On the 7th of June he left Baldwin, it offering no advantages of a defensive character, and assembled the main body of his forces at Tupelo.
Tile position selected was an excellent one to protect the south branches of the Mobile and New Orleans railroads.
The movement of Gen. Beauregard was a surprise to the enemy, and a decided success.
His effective force did not exceed forty-seven thousand men of all arms, and he had skilfully avoided attack from an enemy superiour in numbers.
By holding Corinth, he had gained time, a
ce was regarded as lost.
Every one expected Grant's army to march into Vicksburg that night, while there was no means of defence and no spirit in the troops.
Gen. Pemberton set to work, reorganizing the army for the last desperate struggle.
Gen. Baldwin went out to review the line of defences, and imagining that the first assault would be made on the left wing, he petitioned to be assigned to hold that position with his veteran troops, upon whose fidelity and courage he could depend.
The army was placed in position on the lines, and placed in the ditches, with Gen. Baldwin on the left, and Gen. Lee on the right.
The centre was held by Gens. Pemberton, Smith, and Forney.
As these dispositions were made, the confidence of the troops was gradually restored; they saw the purpose of defence; and they were entertained with the prospect that their besieged condition would soon be relieved by Johnston's army.
But such prospect was not a little visionary.
The truth of the situation wa
The nation, realizing the transcendent magnitude of the issue, awaited the result with profound anxiety.
The galleries, and the avenues leading to them, were early thronged by a dense mass intensely anxious to witness the scene.
Senators, Cabinet officers, Judges of the Supreme Court, and even strangers, crowding on to the floor of the House, watched its proceedings with absorbing interest.
During the roll-call, the vote of Speaker Colfax, and the votes of Mr. English, Mr. Ganson, and Mr. Baldwin, with assured success, were warmly applauded by the Republican side.
And when the Speaker declared, that, the Constitutional majority of two-thirds having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution was passed, the announcement was received by the House and the spectators on the floor with a wild outburst of enthusiastic applause.
The Republican members instantly sprang to their feet, and applauded with cheers and clapping of hands.
The spectators in the crowded galleries waved thei
The nation, realizing the transcendent magnitude of the issue, awaited the result with profound anxiety.
The galleries, and the avenues leading to them, were early thronged by a dense mass intensely anxious to witness the scene.
Senators, Cabinet officers, Judges of the Supreme Court, and even strangers, crowding on to the floor of the House, watched its proceedings with absorbing interest.
During the roll-call, the vote of Speaker Colfax, and the votes of Mr. English, Mr. Ganson, and Mr. Baldwin, with assured success, were warmly applauded by the Republican side.
And when the Speaker declared, that, the Constitutional majority of two-thirds having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution was passed, the announcement was received by the House and the spectators on the floor with a wild outburst of enthusiastic applause.
The Republican members instantly sprang to their feet, and applauded with cheers and clapping of hands.
The spectators in the crowded galleries waved thei
fe and left nothing but that frail wasted shell of humanity, no thought could tell; she was seventy years old and reduced to the weight of a child.
I felt as if I would have given worlds to be able to look away for a moment and yet I could not.
Then I saw her in comedy . . . the fun was on the same large scale with everything else, and carried every one along irresistibly.
One day the young clergyman encountered Henry Ward Beecher on the street looking fresh and wholesome as a great Baldwin apple. . . .
I had in one hand, wrote Mr. Higginson,
a box of strawberries, a large box, and 2 pasteboard boxes, and in the other an umbrella.
He said, You are as badly off as I was in Boston t'other day, when I met Wendell Phillips.
I saw a great red lobster on a stall—a thing I had n't seen since I was a boy (as if he had ever ceased to be), but in N. Y. they are not sold boiled.
So I bought it and carried it with me to the Railroad Station, but presently I saw a much bigger
n the second volume of my Reports,
United States v. Battiste, 2 Sumner's Reports, p. 240. with regard to the power of a jury to disobey the instructions of the court on a question of law in rendering a general verdict; and on which, you know, Baldwin
United States v. Wilson, Baldwin's Reports, p. 78. has expressed an opinion opposite to yours.
Parke at once exclaimed, and Erle and Bompas chimed in, that there was no possible ground of question; that a court should instruct a jury to takBaldwin's Reports, p. 78. has expressed an opinion opposite to yours.
Parke at once exclaimed, and Erle and Bompas chimed in, that there was no possible ground of question; that a court should instruct a jury to take the law absolutely as it is laid down from the bench; and that a jury should not presume, because it has the physical power, to pronounce upon the law. I was quite amused to see how instantaneously they all gave judgment in the matter, and what astonishment they expressed when I assured them that some persons held otherwise in America.
I have recently breakfasted with Lord Denman, as I was so engaged as not to be able to accept his invitation to dinner.
Bland, noble Denman!
On the bench
and marched towards it as fast as possible.
Company H was detailed to guard a blockhouse and an enormous railroad-bridge. . . . . Next morning news came that the enemy were in hot pursuit of our routed forces, and our picket was ordered to come in as quickly as possible.
We were then a mile and a quarter from camp, and on approaching it found the army retreating in two columns, our regiment bringing up the rear of that on the right. . . . . That day (Sunday) we retreated in good order to Baldwin, stayed an hour or two, and at nightfall started again and travelled thirteen miles more,—twenty-five in all. . . . . Halted at midnight, and bivouacked in the woods.
Were we tired and footsore?
Did we (Will and I) have a good supper of fried pork and coffee?
Did we then turn in, snapping our fingers at all fear of Johnny, and go to sleep to be awakened by daylight, which seemed to tread on the heels of twelve o'clock? All this we did and more.
We started again at sunrise. . . . . The r
without having ever seen Athens or Rome, were brought in the fifth century, under Theodosius the younger, to Constantinople.
It is a question that can never be decided, but it is a curious and interesting fact, that the young Dandolo, who has shown both learning and modesty in this controversy, is the direct lineal descendant of the blind old Doge of the same name, who in 1204 was the first to mount the breach at Constantinople, and, after having refused the Empire of the East, and placed Baldwin on the throne, brought these very horses as the trophy of his country's triumph. . . . . It is not a little singular that the father of this young man is the very man who, with fallen fortunes and proud blood, is appointed commander of the arsenal, and is obliged every day to visit the ruins of the glory his fathers founded.
October 17.—At the Academy of Arts we enjoyed an unexpected pleasure.
It is in the former Convent della Carita, famous from the circumstance that Alexander III., es
isiana a part of the United States should receive unanimous consent.
He subsequently offered his services to the administration to support such a measure.
It now became necessary for Congress to provide a form of government for the acquired territory.
A motion was made in the Senate, November 28th (Annals of Congress, 1803-1804, p. 106), for the appointment of a committee to prepare a form of government.
This motion was adopted, December 5th, and Messrs. Breckinridge, Wright, Jackson, Baldwin and Adams were appointed as the committee.
A bill was reported from this committee, December 30th, which, after discussion and amendments, was passed by the Senate, February 18, 1804, by a vote of 20 to 5.
When this bill came to the House it gave rise to animated discussion and met with opposition, not only from the Federalists, but from a number of staunch Republicans.
After important amendments, it finally passed March 17th by a vote of 66 to 21.
These amendments were rejected by the
mposed of twenty-one separate States, met at Washington simultaneously with the assembling of delegates of the seceded States in Montgomery, February 4th, 1861.
The seceding States were of course not represented.
But the remaining seven States of the South, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, had their ablest men present as commissioners.
The six New England States had sent such statesmen as Fessenden, Morrill, Crittenden, Boutwell, Tuck, Ames, Baldwin; New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania from the middle Atlantic seaboard had their embassadors, while Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas stood for the West.
Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, California and Oregon sent no delegates.
The venerable John Tyler, ex-President of the United States, was chosen president and made a strong, patriotic address, containing the pertinent remark, Your patriotism will surmount the difficulties, however great, if you will accomplish but one t
