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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
e of the most distinguished citizens of New York, of all parties. They organized that evening, with the title of the Union defense Committee. The Committee was composed of the following citizens:--John A. Dix, Chairman; Simeon Draper, Vice-Chairman; William M. Evarts, Secretary; Theodore Dehon, Treasurer; Moses Taylor, Richard M. Blatchford, Edwards Pierrepont, Alexander T. Stewart, Samuel Sloane, John Jacob Astor, Jr., John J. Cisco, James S. Wadsworth, Isaac Bell, James Boorman, Charles H. Marshall, Robert H. McCurdy, Moses H. Grinnell, Royal Phelps, William E. Dodge, Greene C. Bronson, Hamilton Fish, William F. Havemeyer, Charles H. Russell, James T. Brady, Rudolph A. Witthaus, Abiel A. Low, Prosper M. Wetmore, A. C. Richards, and the Mayor, Controller, and Presidents of the two Boards of the Common Council of the City of New York. The Committee had rooms at No. 80 Pine Street, open all day, and at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, open in the evening. The original and specific duties
Dudley, interview with George Peabody in London, D. 76 William B., Col., Penn., Doc. 311 Manierre, B. F., D. 94 ---, Judge, of Chicago, D. 35 Manning, —, appointed to Beauregard's staff, D. 22 Mansfield, —, General, D. 78, 102 Marion Artillery, of Charleston, S. C., D. 51 Marmaduke, J. B., Colonel, D. 107; Doc. 410 Marr, John Q., killed at Fairfax Court House, Va., D. 89; Doc. 322 Marseillaise, The, D. 72 Marsh, Luther R., Doc. 135 Marshall, Charles H., Doc. 93 Marshall, Thomas M., D. 25 Martha J. Ward, ship, seized, D. 17 Martial law, definition of, P. 26 Martinsburg, Va., Union meeting, D. 68 Marriage in the poor-house of Toledo, Ohio, P. 39 Mary Clinton, ship, captured, D. 87 Maryland, disunionism in, D. 7, 8; Governor Hicks' address to, D. 11; added to the military department of Washington, D. 33; citizens of, visit President Lincoln, D. 38; Legislature o f, meet, D. 45; secession in, defeat
whose names were announced in the public papers, would be happy to receive funds to indemnify the losses of the men of the crew of the Cumberland and Congress, and to provide for the widows and orphans of those who went down in those ships, and he was sure that he expressed the sentiments of all when he said to our brother sailors that their presence had been to us a source of the highest pleasure, and that we should follow them wherever they went, whatever they might encounter. Capt. Charles H. Marshall offered the following resolution: Resolved, That, as the sense of this meeting, some recognition of the heroic and gallant conduct of the officers and crews of the frigates Cumberland and Congress during the late engagement at Hampton Roads, is eminently due from the Government, and that it be recommended to the Navy Department to prepare a suitable medal to be presented to each of the surviving officers and men in commemoration of the event. Resolved, That a copy of this res
essels at the time of entering. Mr. Blunt and myself discussed the plan over a chart, and he communicated it to Charles H. Marshall and Russell Sturges, and they all approved it, and Mr. Marshall agreed to furnish and provision the vessels withouMr. Marshall agreed to furnish and provision the vessels without exciting suspicion. February fourth, Mr. Blunt came to my hotel with a telegram from Lieutenant-General Scott, requesting my attendance at Washington. I left the next day, and breakfasted with the General the sixth instant. At eleven A. M., I nce to me with his advice and active cooperation, I met, by previous arrangement, Messrs. William H. Aspinwall and Charles H. Marshall, for the purpose of making with them preliminary arrangements for the voyage. Mr. Marshall declined to aid me, Mr. Marshall declined to aid me, upon the ground that the attempt to relieve Fort Sumter would kill the proposed loan and bring on civil war, and that the people had made up their minds to abandon Sumter, and make the stand upon Fort Pickens. On the second of April, I had not rec
ther Bradish, Fernando Wood, A. T. Stewart, Morris Ketchum, Jonathan Sturges, J. J. Astor, John Cochran, Alex. Duncan. Secretaries. J. Smith Homans, John Bigelow, John T. Johnston, Sheppard Gandy, D. D. Lord, C. H. Marshall, Jr., Jas. G. De Forest, George A. Vogel, Fletcher Westray, Charles B. Norton, Speech of the Hon. John A. Dix. On taking the chair, the President said:-- Fellow-Citizens:--We have come together to express our determination to uh, Isaac Bell, James Boorman, Abiel A. Low, Edwards Pierrepont, Richard M. Blatchford, Alexander T. Stewart, Hamilton Fish, Samuel Sloan, John Jacob Astor, Wm. F. Havemeyer, Charles H. Russell, Rudolph A. Witthaus, Charles H. Marshall, Prosper M. Wetmore, Robert H. McCurdy, On motion, the name of Hon. John A. Dix was added to the committee. Mr. S. B. Chittenden offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted amid hearty cheers: Resolved, That Ne
our national Government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. Certainly, the most venerated expounders of the Constitution — Jay, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, Story, Webster — were of opinion that the intention of the convention to establish a permanent, consolidated Government, a single commonwealth, had been completely successful. The great and fundamental defect of the Confederaat, by admitting such loose phraseology and such imaginary rights, we should violate the first principles of our political organization, should fly in the face of our history, should trample under foot the teachings of Jay, Hamilton, Washington, Marshall, Madison, Dane, Kent, Story, and Webster, and, accepting only the dogmas of Mr. Calhoun as infallible, surrender forever our national laws and our national existence. Englishmen themselves live in a united empire; but if the kingdom of Scotla
had come out to exchange the parting word with her son, said, with tears standing in her eyes, as the train rolled away, Go; you leave sore hearts behind you, but all will be well when you return. And a grayhaired sire, at the same place, hobbling on a cane, shouted after the train as it moved away: I have three sons with you now, and I wish I could go myself. Such was the spirit manifested everywhere, and a corresponding feeling pervaded the hearts of the men. All the way out through Marshall the utmost enthusiasm was awakened by the appearance of the soldiers. They had not known them to be coming, but they divined at once their mission, and the most joyful excitement was everywhere exhibited. Owing to the alarming reports of the night before, rumors that Southern troops were approaching, we found crowds at every stopping place, who cheered the trains as they passed, with wild vehemence. At Glen Easton we found a company of twenty-five or thirty-eight riflemen, and further on
by a knot of conspirators at the South, of destroying the Union whenever the men entertaining this design should no longer be able to control its Government. So long as they could enjoy its honors and emoluments, and use its prestige, its treasury, its army, and its navy, for their own purposes, they were content that it should stand; but the moment these were wrested from their grasp by the will of the people, that moment the Union was to be destroyed. So long ago as the year 1799, Judge Marshall, in a letter to Washington, dated at Richmond, remarked: To me it seems that there are men who will hold power by any means rather than not hold it, and who would prefer a dissolution of the Union to the continuance of an Administration not of their own party. And Mr. Stephens declared, in regard to the present conspiracy, that the ambition of disappointed office-seekers constituted a great part of the trouble. General Jackson, after the South Carolina rebellion of 1832 was sup
of members was at first so small that the number necessary to form a quorum could not be got together. At about 2 o'clock, however, the meeting went into session. Some resolutions were then introduced by Simon Draper, after which-- Mr. Marshall regretted that there was not a larger meeting, but at the same time most cordially concurred in the sentiments of the resolutions, which, he said, conveyed the sentiments of ninety-nine out of every hundred citizens of New York. Moses Gria great lie]; there were circumstances which led to the belief that the result would be so at first; but although a lamentable occurrence, it had not discouraged him, nor did he see any reason why it should discourage any one else. Capt. Charles H. Marshall said he fully concurred in the suggestion that it was the duty of the merchants and citizens of New York to convene a meeting for the public expression of their opinions, and not only to take into consideration the army department, but