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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
From Washington. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Feb. 26, 1861. Lincoln visited his Capitol yesterday. In the Senate he was received with distinguished consideration on the Republican side. Douglas limped up to him and greeted him lovingly. He came over to the Democratic side, walked slowly around, no one taking the slightest notice of him, looked at a map, and plunk out. In the House, Emerson Etheridge played ring-master, took Lincoln out of Seward's hands, and introduced him to the Republicans, who crowded around him with servile promptness, making such confusion that the business of the House was for a time suspended. When he came over to the Democratic side, he stood fully a minute before any one seemed to be aware of his presence. Hi countenance fell; he placed both hands of the back of a chair, and his form seemed to droop and give way under the humiliating embarrassment. To relieve him, Republicans hastened from their side to surround him an
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Lincoln in Washington. (search)
s to play "Dixie," the adopted national air of Secession, for the benefit of young Lincoln. The musicians, however, on ascertaining the purpose for which they were being used, made the thing even by performing "Hail Columbia," with all the extras. This morning Mr. Lincoln was occupied with engagements with his friends, many of whom called from 9 A. M. up to 2 P. M. At 10 ½ o'clock Mr. Lincoln rode out, and was gone till 12 M. Among those who called upon Mr. Lincoln to-day, were Gov. Seward, Senator Sumner, the New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana Congressional delegations, Judge Harris, Vice-President Hamlin, and others. Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, also called upon Mr. Lincoln, and held a protracted consultation with him. The only exception made to the rule prohibiting the admission of strangers, was the case of a number of Virginia gentlemen who called and were at once admitted to an interview. They afterwards expressed themselves very much pleased with the President ele