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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 24 8 Browse Search
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. 18 2 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 8 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource] 5 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 3: (search)
lected by the respective State delegations, to report resolutions as a platform for the party; and on the same day it was resolved unanimously that this Convention will not proceed to ballot for a candidate for the Presidency until the platform shall have been adopted. On the 27th of April the Committee on Resolutions made majority and minority reports. 5th day, p. 45. After a long, able, and eloquent discussion on the respective merits of the two reports, they were both, on motion of Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, re-committed to the Committee on Resolutions, Page 89. with a view, if possible, to promote harmony; but this proved to be impracticable. On the sixth day of the Convention (Saturday, April 28th), Pages 92, 98. at an evening session, Mr. Avery, of North Carolina, and Mr. Samuels, of Iowa, from the majority and minority of the committee, again made opposite and conflicting reports on the question of slavery in the Territories. On this question the committee had div
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 7: (search)
respectively belonged. It consisted of five Republicans: Messrs. Seward, Collamer, Wade, Doolittle, and Grimes; five from slaveholding States: Messrs. Powell, Hunter, Crittenden, Toombs, and Davis; and three Northern Democrats: Messrs. Douglas, Bigler, and Bright. The latter three were intended to act as mediators between the extreme parties on the committee. No legislative body, in the history of nations, had ever created a committee upon whose action more important consequences depended.nden. Senate Journal, 1860-61, p. 218. It may be proper here to observe that the resolution of Mr. Crittenden 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 o
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
ncluding the company from Fortress Monroe. His testimony before the Hale Committee and the court-Martial on Captain Armstrong. Report No. 37, pp. 58, 284. Four days after the Brooklyn had left Fortress Monroe, Senators Slidell, Hunter, and Bigler received a telegraphic despatch from Senator Mallory, of Florida, dated at Pensacola on the 28th January, with an urgent request that they would lay it before the President. This despatch expressed an ardent desire to preserve the peace, as well command, and to Lieutenant A. J. Slemmer, 1st artillery, commanding Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida. The following is a copy: In consequence of the assurances received from Mr. Mallory in a telegram of yesterday to Messrs. Slidell, Hunter, and Bigler, with a request it should be laid before the President, that Fort Pickens would not be assaulted, and an offer of such assurance to the same effect from Colonel Chase, for the purpose of avoiding a hostile collision, upon receiving satisfactory a