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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 75 (search)
Jan. 20.--There is no doubt that the command of the Southern Army has been offered to Jefferson Davis, and it is equally well understood that he is in a state of mind bordering on despair.
He seems to be the only rational man among the secessionists, and clearly comprehends the terrible fate which must befall the South in the event of a conflict with the General Government.
He does not disguise his gloomy apprehensions from his friends; and his only remaining hope is that war may be prevehe South in the event of a conflict with the General Government.
He does not disguise his gloomy apprehensions from his friends; and his only remaining hope is that war may be prevented, and the Union reconstructed.
Mr. Davis was a fiery Secessionist ten years ago, but gradually the fires have died out, until his intelligent mind is left free to comprehend the perilous position to which the South, with its institution of Slavery, has been brought by the madness of her sons.--Times, Jan. 23.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 90 (search)
Feb. 25.--It is said that Jefferson Davis is at Charleston.
Shortly after his arrival it was quietly arranged for him to pay a visit to Fort Sumter, which was accomplished privately.
The interview is represented to have been an earnest and prolonged one, but all not immediately in the secret were left wholly to conjecture as to what took place between him and Major Anderson.
It has, however, been knowingly given out at Charleston that there will be no fight at Fort Sumter--great stress evidently being placed upon the fact that these two old acquaintances in the army cannot be brought into bloody conflict with each other.
On the other hand, it is believed that if the alleged visit had elicited any particular comfort for the great leader of the secession movement, such good news would not have been kept for private consumption merely.--New York Times.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 92 (search)
the writer of an elaborate four-column article in the Charleston Mercury contends that the prohibition of the slave-trade by the provisional government at Montgomery is intolerable — that it must be rebelled against.
He says that it sets a stain, a stigma, upon slavery itself, and is little if any better than abolition.
The secession party has swallowed the apple of discord, and the seeds are vigorously sprouting in its stomach.
Jeff. Davis, in his Montgomery speech, said: Fellow-citizens and brethren of the Confederate States of America--for now we are brethren not in name merely, but in fact — men of one flesh, one bone, &c. The confederationists may be of one bone with their new President and Vice-President, but if they are of one flesh with them, they are the lankest nation of bipeds ever known to natural history.
Save the Union, and make kindling wood of all your partisan platforms.
The Nashville Union, having despaired of being able to sustain secession in Tennes
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 93 (search)
Jefferson Davis is a prim, smooth-looking man, with a precise manner, a stiff, soldierly carriage, and an austerity that is at first forbidding.
He has naturally, however, a genial temper, companionable qualities, and a disposition that endears him to all by whom he may be surrounded.
As a speaker he is clear, forcible and argumentative; his voice is clear and firm, without tremor.
Alexander H. Stephens from childhood has been afflicted with four abscesses and a continued derangement of the liver, which gives him a consumptive appearance though his lungs are sound.
He has never weighed over ninety-six pounds, and to see his attenuated figure bent over his desk, the shoulders contracted, and the shape of his slender limbs visible through his garments, a stranger would ever select him as the John Randolph of our time, more dreaded as an adversary and more prized as an ally in a debate than any other member of the House of Representatives.
He is a careful student, but so very
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 95 (search)
The editor of the Norwich (Ct.) Bulletin, sent Jefferson Davis, the President of the Six nations, a pen-holder made from a rafter of the house in which Benedict Arnold was born.
In closing his letter of presentation the editor says: I have taken occasion to present you this pen-holder, as a relic whose associations are linked most closely to the movement of which you are the head.
Let it lie upon your desk for use in your official duties.
In the eternal fitness of things, let that be its appropriate place.
It links 1780 with 1861.
Through it, West Point speaks to Montgomery.
And if we may believe that spirits do ever return and haunt this mundane sphere, we may reckon with what delight Benedict Arnold's immortal part will follow this fragment of his paternal roof-tree to the hands in which is being consummated the work which he began.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), A heroine in Baltimore . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), The traitor's plot. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 165 (search)
In the Virginia Convention, when it was proposed to send a committee to ask Mr. Lincoln what was the object of his military movements, Mr. Carlisle suggested that a similar committee should be sent to Montgomery to ascertain from Jeff. Davis what he intended to do with all the troops he is raising.
Henry A. Wise enquired whether Mr. Carlisle would be named as one of the committee to be sent to Montgomery, for, if so, that would be the last they would ever see of him.
That remark was in the true spirit of the Secessionists; they have taken their States out of the Union without consulting the Border States; they are trying to complicate us in difficulties and place us in false positions in the hope to compel us to join them; and, if we have the temerity to ask why large armies are raised and extraordinary expenses incurred, the threat of murder is made at once.
Lynch law is the only law proffered to the friends of the Union in the Confederate States.--Louisville Journal, April 23
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 177 (search)
The three commissioners who went abroad to endeavor to obtain the recognition of Jeff. Davis's Government, got a pretty essential snub at Havana, where they went to take ship for Europe.
It seems that a day was fixed when Messrs. Commissioners should be presented to Gen. Serano, the Captain-General.
The ceremony of presentation was performed by Mr. Helm, the American Consul at Havana, who introduced the trio as Commissioners from the Confederate States of America.
The reply of the Captain-General was as follows:
Gentlemen, I receive you as citizens of the United States; but I do not acknowledge any such Power as the Confederate States of America. --Phil. Bulletin, May 1.