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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the Southern Capital. (search)
aham Lancoln. "This Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind should rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its own advocates push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in the states old as well as new, North as well as South."--[Lincoln's Spring field Speech, June 17th, 1858. Lincoln forgets, too, that his Premier, Mr. Seward, is the preacher of an "irrepressible conflict" with Southern institutions, and that another eminent Black Republican, whom he has chosen as one of his constitutional advisers--Mr. Chase--has publicly avowed himself in "favor of freedom throughout the country's wide domain." Reverse this case, and, as the New York Express says, imagine — if you can-- a Southern party coming into power, with eighty millions of patronage, insisting upon a " conflict" with the North, and declaring that freedo
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrived. (search)
What Influences Stocks. --The manner in which the stock market of New York may be sent up or down, may be gathered from this extract from the commercial article in the New York Tribune of Thursday: The market is naturally very sensitive, and is influenced by every genuine or bogus dispatch from Washington. To-day, after falling on a rumor that the President of the Southern Confederacy had directed an immediate attack upon Fort Sumter, it railied again upon a reported telegram that Mr. Seward was about to visit Richmond, by invitation of the Virginia Convention, to consult in regard to a basis of settlement. New York Tribune"
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Horrible Affair. (search)
From Washington. Washington, March 10. --A Cabinet meeting was held last night on other subjects than appointments to office. The condition of the Southern forts held by the Federal troops engaged the deep attention of Gen. Scott and others, yesterday. From recent information it appears there is much dissatisfaction in the army even on the frontiers. Secretary Seward will be able to attend to his duties to-morrow. A number of subordinate officers in the army have resigned, and others are preparing to follow their example. There appears to be but little doubt in the best informed political circles to-night, that it was decided in Cabinet meeting last night to evacuate Fort Sumter.
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
s must be first exhausted in the effort to suppress insurrection, before this resort could be tried." He adds: "In every aspect our relations with the revolted States are grave and complicated. With the best dispositions for peace here, it seems almost impossible to avoid a collision sooner or later, unless they should exhibit a degree of reason which is hardly expected. The country must be prepared for stirring events, unless the Cotton Confederacy abandons the purpose of defying the Federal authority and of appropriating the revenues." Looking back upon the mysterious manner in which Virginia has been lured on by the subtle policy of Seward to wait, and wait, and wait — till the Black Republicans are ready to crush the South"we can almost imagine, that this most subtle of all the beasts of Black Republicanism has put some potent spell upon the Mother of States, some vile drug, some enchantment of hell, that she does not see the eternal death that is yawning at her feet.