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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., chapter 29 (search)
red and sixty-one, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-fifth. Abraham Lincoln. By the President: Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. This Proclamation was received throughout the Free States with very general and enthusiasticy set forth, on the evening of that day, by The New York Express, as follows: The irrepressible conflict started by Mr. Seward and indorsed by the Republican party, has at length attained to its logical, foreseen result. That conflict, undertakeore formal representation from Gov. Hicks, objecting to the passage of Northern troops across any portion of Maryland, Gov. Seward returned the following most moderate and conciliatory answer: Department of State, April 22, 1861. His Excellencn monarchy. I have the honor to be, with distinguished consideration, your Excellency's most obedient servant, ; William H. Seward. The spirit in which these negotiations were regarded throughout the loyal States is very fairly exhibited in t
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., chapter 36 (search)
d supported the requirement of Great Britain, in a considerate and courteous dispatch, wherein she justly claimed to have hitherto uniformly accorded with the United States in a liberal interpretation and generous assertion of the rights of neutrals in war. This demand of Great Britain--to the great disappointment and chagrin of the Confederates, who confidently expected that war between the United States and England must speedily and certainly ensue — was complied with by our Government--Gov. Seward, in an able dispatch, basing that compliance more immediately on the failure of Capt. Wilkes to bring the Trent into port for adjudication on the legality of his act, whereby her voyage had been temporarily arrested and two of her passengers forcibly abstracted. And thus, at the close of the year 1861, the imminent peril of war with that European Power most able to injure us, because of her immense naval strength, as well as of the proximity of her American possessions, was wisely aver
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., Additional Notes. (search)
dly a foothold in the Slave States. III. the Albany evening Journal on Gov. Seward and Judge Campbell. The Albany Evening Journal of May 20th, 1861, commenting on a very abusive attack on Gov. Seward, in a then recent Richmond Whig, with regard to his assurances to or through Judge Campbell, respecting Fort Sumter, sayselations would furnish no evidence of either the falsehood or duplicity of Governor Seward; for there was nothing of either in his conversations. We violate no cowith the leading enemies of the Union, he was grossly misunderstood. That Gov. Seward conversed freely with Judge Campbell, we do not deny; nor do we doubt, that, an effort to reenforce and provision that fortress. We do not know whether Gov. Seward met Judge Campbell after that change of purpose; but he was not at liberty, if they did meet, to reveal what was so well kept. But, whatever Gov. Seward said or intimated to Judge Campbell, was true at the time it was said. That Judge
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., Analytical Index. (search)
ostpone the attack at Bull Run, 618. Campbell, Judge John A., his opinion in Dred Scott's case, 258; 430; letter to Gov. Seward, 433-4; The Albany Evening Journal on, 632. camp Carlile, Ohio, Virginia Unionists at, 520. camp Cole, Mo., a Unetc., 609-10. Clayton, John M., of Del., 190. Clemens, Hon. Jere., at Huntsville, Ala., 632. Cleveland, Ohio, Gov. Seward's speech at, 199; John Brown's proceedings at, 288. Clingman, Thomas L., of N. C., 308; 329 ; his prescription for his Legislature, 349; 461; harangues the Baltimore mob, 464; 465; his interview with the President, 466; letter from Secretary Seward to, 467; 469; his Message to the Legislature, 470-71; issues a proclamation for troops, 472. Hill, D. H., reporte, 402. Semmes, Capt. Raphael, the Sumter, 602. Sergeant, John, of Pa., appointed to the Panama Congress, 268-9. Seward, Wm. H., speech of March 11th, 1850, 48; 129; speech at Cleveland, Ohio, 199; 201; 231; 251; his irrepressible conflict s
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