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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, September (search)
September 4. Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, in a letter to the chairman of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Conventions, held this language: These peace meetings, with us, and, I presume, everywhere, are mere soft words for treason, and we shall so treat them. I am gratified to find you still at your post, and have not caught the Bull Run panic, which has done some mischief in Kentucky. I am on guard all the time, and ready for action. If the rebels dare make a war upon us, we will sweep them clear, and that rapidly. We are wide awake, and defy their malice as much as we scorn their blustering. The Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws, must be kept aloft everywhere, and all mere party platforms trampled under foot. Leonidas Polk, general in the Confederate Army, issued the following proclamation at Columbus, Ky., this day: The Federal Government having, in defiance of the wishes of the people of Kentucky, disregarded their neutrality by establishing camp depots o
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
and great urbanity of manner, was chosen temporary president of the Convention. Credentials of delegates were called for, when it was found that almost one-third of all the States were unrepresented. The States not represented were California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin--ten in all. Toward evening, after a recess, Governor Hunt was elected permanent President. When the subject of a platform was proposed, Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, an ardent follower and admirer of Henry Clay, took the floor, and put the Convention in the best of humor by a characteristic little speech. He declared that he had constructed three platforms: one for the harmonious Democracy, who had agreed so beautifully, at Charleston; another for the Republicans, about to assemble at Chicago; and a third for the party then around him. For the first, he proposed the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, which seemed to give licens
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
may destroy it, to prevent Northern troops from invading Tennessee. He seemed to be persuaded that a vast host were mustering on the Ohio border. He was evidently on his way to Louisville to confer, doubtless by appointment, with leading secessionists of Kentucky, on the subject of armed rebellion. The register of the Galt House April 23. in that city showed that Pillow, Governor Magoffin, Simon B. Buckner, and other secessionists were at that house on that evening. Letter of General Leslie Coombs to the author. We did not stop at Louisville, but immediately crossed the Ohio River to Jeffersonville, and took passage in a car for Cincinnati. The change was wonderful. For nearly three weeks we had not seen a National flag, nor heard a National air, nor scarcely felt a thrill produced by a loyal sentiment audibly uttered; now the Stars and Stripes were seen everywhere, National melodies were heard on every hand, and the air was resonant with the shouts of loyal men. Banners
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 320 (search)
General Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, writes to a friend in Cincinnati, under date of April 27, as follows:-- We could not control the Governor and his coconspirators, but we appealed to the people, and on next Saturday we expect to elect John J. Crittenden, James Guthrie, and others, to a brotherly peace conference--by a majority unparalleled heretofore in Kentucky. I shall not be surprised at fifty thousand. The destructionists, anticipating their fate, have recently resolved to abis Kentucky to be rewarded now by having her soil invaded by the sons whose mothers we protected? Is my house to be fired, over the heads of my children and grandchildren, by the children of those for whose sake I staked my life, and suffered innumerable hardships in 1812-13? The answer is with Ohio. We have resisted official coercion in Kentucky; let no power on earth tempt or drive you to bloody outrage now. Very truly your old friend, Leslie Coombs. --N. Y. Evening Post, May 7.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Index. (search)
onrad, C. M., D. 5 Conrad's Ferry, Md., skirmish at, D. 108 Constitution, school-ship, D. 40; escape of, D. 48 Contraband of war, constitution and constipation, P. 68 Contraband negroes, D. 80; General Ashley's account of, P. 110; General Butler's letter to General Scott on, Doc. 313; Secretary Cameron to Gen. Butler on, Doc. 314 Conway, William, seaman, loyalty of, approved by the Navy Department, D. 43 Cooke, Erastus, D. 32 Cooley, T. M., P. 73 Coombs, Leslie, letter of, P. 81 Cooper, S., Adj.-Gen. U. S.A., D. 18 Copland, Mary, verses by, P. 36 Corcoran, Michael, Colonel 69th Regt., N. Y. S., D. 53; captures secessionists, D. 95 69th Regt., N. Y. S. M., Doc. 142; lines addressed to, P. 34 Cornwell, H. S., verses by, P. 123 Corwin, Moses H., D. 36 Corwin, Thomas, his amendment to the Constitution, D. 18; Doc. 36 Coste, N. L., Capt., surrenders the cutter Aiken, D. 7 Cotton, the culture of, introduced
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coombs, Leslie -1881 (search)
Coombs, Leslie -1881 Military officer; born near Boonesboro, Ky., Nov. 28, 1793; entered the army in 1812; and after the defeat at the Raisin River he was sent to General Harrison with important messages which necessitated his travelling more than 100 miles over a country covvered with snow and occupied by Indians. He took a prominent part in the defeat of Colonel Dudley, and was wounded at Fort Miami. After the war he was admitted to the bar and became eminent in his profession and also as a political speaker. He died in Lexington, Ky., Aug. 21, 1881.
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
as arrested by the police for causing a disturbance by uttering treasonable sentiments. He was conveyed to the receiving ship Ohio for safety. A proposition to settle the war. Louisville, April 25. --A proposition has been made by the Governor of Kentucky to the Governor of Ohio, that the Governors of the Border States propose to the United States Government to become arbitrators between the contending parties in the present difficulties. Arms and money Wanted. Gen. Leslie Coombs has telegraphed to A. L. Saunders, at New York: "Mr. Crittenden is absent. Can we get arms and money for self-defence in the Union? When and how!" This dispatch was forwarded by Gen. Wool to President Lincoln, and Mr. Saunders also sent to the President the following communication: "If the State of Kentucky assumes the position of a strict 'armed neutrality, ' remaining in the Union--not permitting troops from the Confederate States to pass over her soil — wil
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
The National Crisis. a Republican proposition--Gov. Hicks and the Maryland Senate--correspondence between Gen. Coombs and Horace Greeley — aid for South Carolina--Major Anderson, &c., &c. Mr. Sherman's plan of compromise. Mr. Sherme, we are satisfied that they would, if present, fully endorse the views above expressed. Correspondence between Gen. Coombs andHorace Greeley. The following correspondence has taken place between Gen. Leslie Coombs, of Ky., and Horace GreGen. Leslie Coombs, of Ky., and Horace Greeley, of the N. Y. Tribune: Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 23, 1860. My Dear Sir: --I have no time or inclination for an argument, much less for controversy with you. You know I am an honest citizen of the United States. I saved Kentucky last Augll give it your support, no effort of mine shall be wanting to ensure its success. Yours, truly, Horace Greeley.Gen. Leslie Coombs, Frankfort, Ky. Letter from Major Anderson. We have been furnished by a gentleman of Baltimore, (says the
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Female Scolds. (search)
Leslie Coombs on coercion. Louisville, Sept. 11. --Leslie Coombs has written a strong coercion letter to the Syracuse Convention. Leslie Coombs on coercion. Louisville, Sept. 11. --Leslie Coombs has written a strong coercion letter to the Syracuse Convention.
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The tools of the Administration is Kentucky. (search)
enemies of his section, his State, and his people. Brigadier General Rousseau. Brig. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau was born in Kentucky, but educated in Indiana, where he read law and has lived until recently.--There he imbibed these anti-slavery sentiments which control his conduct. As a military man, his experience is limited by his service in the Mexican war as captain, and in that his only achievement was his disgraceful flight from the field at Buena Vista. Leslie Cokes. Leslie Coombs is old, feeble, garrulous, vain, proud of being the dope of others, and to get his name into the newspapers willing to expose himself, in all his deformity of intellect, to the pitying gaze of the world. Nathaniel Wolf. Nat Wolf is able, plausible, persevering, originating nothing himself; but working for pay in any line of policy in which he may happen to be employed. Two years ago he was elected to the Legislature, where he went as the paid attorney in fact of certain interes
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