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The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the South. (search)
Sec. 9. That the said Board be and are hereby authorized to employ a scientific and competent Military Engineer, who shall, as soon as possible, make an examination of the Coast of this State, with a view to the defence of the same, and make a report, or reports, to the said Board as to the points which need defence, with plans for the same. To carry out this bill, the Committee on Military report in favor of an appropriation of $400,000. In Florida, a public meeting was held at Fernandina, on the 5th inst., at which resolutions were adopted calling on the Legislature to call a State Convention. The following resolutions were also adopted: Whereas, We are advised of the certainty of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, and Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President, upon a sectional platform, at variance with the Constitution of the United States, and derogatory to the rights and interests of the Southern States: Therefore, be it Resolved. That
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The secession movement at the South. (search)
eights are quoted at ½ a 12-32. The vessels arrived here during the week are, ship Milson and brig Anderson, from Boston, and Australia, from Wiscasset. There has been a rumor for several days, discredited, that six free negro seamen were forcibly taken, on the night of the 17th list, from the bark N. W. Bridge, of Cumberland Island, and not afterwards returned or of, also, that three free negro seamen, a portion of the crew of the brig Ringgold, had been taken from the jail at Fernandina, Fla., and removed to parts unknown. The Fernandina East Floridian asserts the truth fulness of the report, and attributes the cause to retaliatory measures, but condemns the proceeding. judge Putnam, in his charge to the Grand Jary, denounced these acts. The editor says it is probable the Florida Legislature will pass preventing Northern vessels bringing such crews into ports of that State. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 23. --Little of that sentiment regarded at the North as conservat
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
any necessity for her local defence. Forts Jefferson and Taylor were built with paramount reference to the commerce of the United States, and should remain in the hands of the Government which built them in the interest of its commerce.--The Key West naval coal depot and wharf, the marine hospital, the army barracks, the admiralty courts and wrecking organization, and the series of light-houses — Loggerhead, Tortugas, Key West, Sand Key, Sombrero, Carysfort, Cape Florida, Jupiter, and Cape Canaveral — will not, we take it for granted, be abandoned to the State, which has least interest in them and least capacity to hold and maintain them. Let Florida have Fort Clinch to guard the approaches to Fernandina; let her have the Pensacola Navy-Yard and the triple fortifications there; let her have what concerns only local interests; but the commercial United States cannot be justly called to surrender to uncommercial Florida what belongs to and concerns only the commerce of the nation.
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern vessels seized. (search)
r, the following vessels were yesterday fined $100 each. Schooner B. W. Browne, Charleston, S. C.; schooner H. R. Coggshall, Jacksonville, Fla; ship T. S. De Soto, Savannah, Ga.; Schooner W. A. Ellis, Charleston, S. C.; brig Wm. M. Groton, Fernandina, Fla; brig Herald, New Orleans, La; schooner Laura Gertrude, Fernandina, Fla; schooner L. V. Myers, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner R. J. Mercer, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner Ned, Charleston, S. C.; schooner Pearl, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner F. ; Schooner W. A. Ellis, Charleston, S. C.; brig Wm. M. Groton, Fernandina, Fla; brig Herald, New Orleans, La; schooner Laura Gertrude, Fernandina, Fla; schooner L. V. Myers, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner R. J. Mercer, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner Ned, Charleston, S. C.; schooner Pearl, Jacksonville, Fla.; schooner F. F. Randolph, Georgetown, S. C.; schooner Mary Stedman, Charleston, S. C.; schooner Virginia, Mobile, Ala.; schooner J. M. Vance, New Smyrna, Fla.; schooner M. A. Wood, Mobile, Ala.
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Palmer returned on Wednesday from a visit to the Eastern portion of the State, and informs us that there exists but one feeling among the people — that of secession.--He visited Newmansville, Gainesville, Micanopy, Jacksonville, Lake City, and Fernandina, and did not find a solitary submissionist. At Fernandina the people are very much excited. On Monday, a Charleston steamer came sailing into that port with the Palmetto flag flying at its mast-head. A number of citizens boarded the vessel, Fernandina the people are very much excited. On Monday, a Charleston steamer came sailing into that port with the Palmetto flag flying at its mast-head. A number of citizens boarded the vessel, and, after obtaining permission, run up two more flags--one with two stars, representing South Carolina, and the other with large letters emblazoned upon it, 'Florida goes with South Carolina.'" The Inter-State flag. The following is the inscription on the flag suspended across the river at Augusta, Ga., connecting that State with South Carolina: The Day of our Deliverance is Dawning! Georgia Coat of Arms Palmetto State. So. Carolina Coat of Arms. Georgia Coat of Arms Han
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Abducted negroes returned. (search)
Abducted negroes returned. --It will be recollected that about two months ago nine free negroes were forcibly abducted from vessels in the harbor of Fernandina, Florida, and conveyed to parts unknown. The outrage excited much indignation in that community and occasioned, perhaps, the return of the negroes, as we gather from the following paragraph from the Fernandina Floridian: "The negroes from the brig. Wingold and bark N. W. Bridge, nine in number, have arrived in this place. They are in comfortable plight, are well cared for, and will be forwarded to their homes as speedily as possible."
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Massachusetts Personal Liberty bill. (search)
s violated, he declares that serious consequences will ensue. The river front of the city is carefully guarded. Many South Carolina ladies have tendered their services at the forts, and some have prepared bedding for the soldiers. Free postal communication is maintained between the forts and the city. The Vigilant Rifles have gone on secret service to Morris' Island. The Zouave Cadets and German Rifles proceeded down the harbor at noon to-day. The steamships to Fernandina, Fla., have discontinued their trips for the present. Six companies drill in the city this evening. The Palmetto Guard, one hundred strong, have charge of the U. S. Arsenal, over which the Palmetto, instead of the National, flag floats. Commodore Shubrick is in this city, a guest of Col. Isaac W. Hayne. A Montgomery (Ala) telegram announces the arrival home of J. D. Elmore, the Commissioner from Alabama to this State. A correspondent writing to the Courier advises mer
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
rom Florida. The Fernandina Floridian, of the 2d inst., says that the entire vote of the city (223,) was cast for Joseph Finegan and Gen Cooper, "the straight-out, immediate, and compromise, now and forever secession candidate." Gov. Perry had passed through on route for his home in Alabama, having purchased in his late trip to the North 1,000 Maynard rifles, and 6,000 Minnie muskets, for the use of the State. A plan is on foot to take possession of Fort Clinch, in the vicinity of Fernandina, and arm it with guns from the fort at St. Augustine. Commodore Kearney will not Resign. Commodore Kearney, second on the Naval list, who sent in his resignation a few days since, has revoked it. In a private letter he says: "Since the course pursued by Charleston lass. I have changed my views in regard to matters in that quarter and elsewhere, and I have asked to be allowed to withdraw my letter of resignation in the Navy." Fortifications in the Southern States.
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
"An enslaved and servile race you can never make of us, never, never, never!" This reiteration of the word "never" was as free from emotion as if he had been insisting on some simple point of law, which could not be decided in any different way; but free from emotion as it was, it produced the greatest effect. The whole gallery on all sides burst out as in one voice, in uncontrollable applause. The Florida forts taken. The following is an extract from a letter, dated Fernandina, Florida, Jan. 5th: "An order came from the Governor this afternoon at three o'clock, and the Everglade will leave here at midnight for St. Augustine, to have the fort there taken, and to bring us some guns and small arms. "The messenger from the Government reports that the Ordinance of Secession will be ready to be read and passed in Convention on Monday, the 7th inst. Our people here and elsewhere in the State are ripe for secession. The good faith with which the people of South
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
causes among the Federal troops — mostly occasioned by change of water and injudicious exposure to the sun — nothing, however, of an epidemic character, Col. Emley, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, has been quite sick; also, Brigadier General E. C. Williams, who has become convalescent. The Privateer "Jeff. Davis." The following are said to be the officers in command of the privateer Jeff. Davis: Capt. Coxsetter, formerly in command of a steamer running between Savannah and Fernandina, Fla., First Lieutenant, Postell, of Savannah, formerly of the U. S. Navy; Second Lieutenant, Stewart, of Philadelphia; Surgeon, Mr. Babcock; Captain of Marines, Mr. Sanfran, together with four prize-masters, who were formerly Charleston and Savannah pilots. not captured. The Cincinnati Enquirer contradicts the story, which it originated, that three companies of the 19th Ohio Regiment had been captured by C. Jennings Wise. Though hemmed in and in great danger, the three companies ma
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