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re he was arrested, and compelled to give bonds in the sum of two thousand dollars to desist from unlawful enterprises; notwithstanding which, he very soon left that city on a steamboat freighted with armed men and military stores, ostensibly for Mobile, but which, once at sea, headed for Nicaragua, landing him and his followers at Punta Arenas, Nov. 25th. Here Commodore Paulding of our Navy compelled him to surrender, December 8th. with one hundred and thirty-two of his followers, bringing ! and declined to hold Walker as a prisoner. Being thus set at liberty, the gray-eyed Man of Destiny traversed the South, exciting the more fanatical Slavery propagandists to aid him in fitting out a third expedition, with which he got off from Mobile ; October 7th. but was arrested near the mouths of the Mississippi for having left port without a clearance. Being taken to New Orleans, he and his associates were tried before the Federal Court and all acquitted; when he immediately recommen
esult. 2. By proffering such new concessions and guarantees to Slavery as should induce the conspirators to desist from their purpose, and return to loyalty and the Union. 3. By treating it as Rebellion and Treason, and putting it down, if need be, by the strong arm. 4. By so acting and speaking as to induce a pause in the movement, and permit an appeal to Philip sober --from the South inflamed by passionate appeals and frenzied accusations, At a great public meeting held at Mobile, Alabama, November 15, 1860, a Declaration of causes, twenty-two in number, was put forth; from which we select the following: The following brief, but truthful history of the Republican party, its acts and purposes, affords an answer to these questions: It claims to abolish Slavery in the districts, forts, arsenals, dockyards, and other places ceded to the United States. To abolish the inter-State Slave-Trade, and thus cut off the Northern Slave States from their profits of production,
e celebrations, with parades, music, cannon-firing, speeches, etc., on that evening or the following day, at New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, etc. Even at Wilmington, Del., where the Secessionists were few indeed, the event was honored by a salute of a r Department that he had taken the step to preserve the forts from seizure by mobs! In Alabama, the Federal arsenal at Mobile was seized on the 4th, by order of Gov. Moore. It contained large quantities of arms and munitions. Fort Morgan, commanding the approaches to Mobile, was likewise seized, and garrisoned by State troops. The steamer Star of the West left New York unannounced, during the night of January 5th, laden with reenforcements and supplies for Fort Sumter. A dispatch from tt Sumter will be regarded as an act of open hostility, and a declaration of war. The revenue cutter Cass, stationed at Mobile, was turned over by Capt. J. J. Morrison to the authorities of Alabama at the end of January. The McClellan, Capt. Bresh
g Fourth of July. President Lincoln issued, on the 27th of April, a proclamation announcing the blockade of the coast of Virginia and North Carolina; due evidence having been afforded that Virginia had formally and North Carolina practically adhered to the Rebellion. Some weeks were required to collect and fit out the vessels necessary for the blockade of even the chief ports of the Rebel States; but the month of May Richmond and Norfolk, the 8th; Charleston, the 11th; New Orleans and Mobile, the 27th; Savannah, the 28th. saw this undertaking so far completed as to make an entrance into either of those ports dangerous to the blockade-runner. On the 3d, the President made a further call for troops — this time requiring 42,000 additional volunteers for three years; beside adding ten regiments to the regular army — about doubling its nominal strength. A large force of volunteers, mainly Pennsylvanians, was organized at Chambersburg, Pa., under the command of Major-Gen. Robert Pat
he delegation, 313-14; secession meeting in, 330; her Commissioner at the South Carolina Convention, 344; Governor of, sends a dispatch to the Convention, 345; secession of, and vote thereon, 347; population in 1860, 351; Declaration of causes at Mobile, 355; offers volunteers to South Carolina, 410; seizure of Federal property in, 412; surrender of the U. S. cutter Cass to, 413. Alabama, The Privateer, is fitted out at Liverpool, for Rebel service, 603. Alamo, the, battle of, 150. Albas for 50,000 militia, 491-2, 555; map of the war region in, 573; sham Secession at Neosho, 589-90. See C. F. Jackson, Reynolds, St. Louis, etc. Missouri Argus, The, citation from, 128. Mitchell, Col., wounded at Wilson's Creek, 597. Mobile, Ala., declaration of causes, etc., at, 355; 407: seizure of the Federal Arsenal at, 412; surrender of the cutter Cass at. 413. Mobile Advertiser, The, citation from, 459. Montgomery, Col., captures Fort Scott, 185. Monroe, Jas., 75; 108-9-