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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 342 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 180 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 178 2 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 168 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 122 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 118 2 Browse Search
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. 118 2 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 106 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 102 2 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 3: assembling of Congress.--the President's Message. (search)
n appeal to the great mass of the people in the Slave-labor States, to break loose from their social and political vassalage to the large land and slave owners, and to aid in freeing the Republic of slavery. of arraying the non-slaveholders and poor men against the wealthy. I have no doubt that would be their leading policy, and they would be very quiet about it. They want to get up that sort of free debate which has been put into practice in Texas, according to the Senator from New York [Mr. Seward], for he is reported to have said, in one of his speeches in the Northwest, alluding to recent disturbances, to burnings and poisonings there, that Texas was excited by free debate. Well, Sir, continued Clingman, with peculiar emphasis, a Senator from Texas The Senators from Texas were John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall. told me, the other day, that a good many of those debaters were hanging up by the trees in that country! When Clingman ceased speaking, the venerable John Jay Critt
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
t Breckinridge, to consider the. condition of the country, and report some plan, by amendments of the National Constitution or otherwise, for its pacification. This Committee consisted of L. W. Powell and John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky; William H. Seward, of New York; J. Collamer, of Vermont; William Bigler, of Pennsylvania; R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Robert Toombs, of Georgia; Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; H. M. Rice, of Minnesota; Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois; Benjamin Wade, of Oitive Slave Act. The Republicans See page 33. adhered to their opposition to Slavery, yet favored conciliatory measures, as shadowed by one of their chief leaders; In a speech at Auburn, New York (his home), on the 20th of November, 1850, Mr. Seward counseled moderation and conciliation. He begged them to be patient and kind toward their erring brethren. Weare all. Fellow-citizens, Americans, brethren, he said. It is a trial of issues by the forces only of reason. while a few corrupt
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 8: attitude of the Border Slave-labor States, and of the Free-labor States. (search)
thern Ohio, northern Indiana, or northern Illinois her masters; should she make enemies of her Southern friends, and deliver herself up to the tender mercies of her Northern enemies, she will sink to rise no more. Better, a thousand times better, to come under the dominion of free negroes, of gipsies, than of Yankees, or low Germans, or Canadians. Gipsies and free negroes have many amiable, noble, and generous traits; Yankees, sour-krout Germans, and Canadians none. Senator Wade says, and Seward too, that the North will absorb Canada. They are half true; the vile, sensual, animal, brutal, infidel, superstitious democracy of Canada and the Yankee States will coalesce; and Senator Johnson of Tennessee will join them. But when Canada, and western New York, and New England, and the whole beastly, puritanic, sour-krout, free negro, infidel, superstitious, licentious, democratic population of the North become the masters of New York — what then? Outside of the city, the State of New Yo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 9: proceedings in Congress.--departure of conspirators. (search)
himself a rebel, 224. Hunter's propositions, 225. Seward's position defined Union speeches, 226-227. finalssenden, Foote, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, King, Seward, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinsanti-Republicans, they were not passed. Finally, Mr. Seward proposed that no amendment should be made to the publicans and Mr. Crittenden alone voting for it. Mr. Seward further proposed that Congress should pass an effbers of that House, namely, Hunter of Virginia, and Seward of New York. Their speeches were marked by great de aims and determination of the conspirators, while Seward's as clearly foreshadowed the aims and determinatiohe right and duty of secession. He declared William H. Seward. that the South must obtain by such changes gr of Virginia or North Carolina Independence. Mr. Seward was regarded as the oracle of the Republican partonciliation. The speeches of Toombs, Hunter, and Seward were key-notes to all that. succeeded on the great
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 10: Peace movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. (search)
's treachery General Scott's desire for Peace indicated, 244. his letter to Mr. Seward Professor Morse's plan for reconciliation, 245. meeting of conspirators at red to a Committee of Five, consisting of Senators Crittenden, Bigler, Thomson, Seward, and Trumbull, with instructions to report the next day. Mr. Crittenden reported the propositions of the Convention, when Mr. Seward, for himself and Mr. Trumbull, presented as a substitute a joint resolution, that whereas the Legislatures of thheir going, but go at once. He denounced the compromise spirit manifested by Mr. Seward and Charles Francis Adams, with much severity of language.--Springfield (Massave contemplated this alternative without dread. In a letter addressed to Governor Seward, on the day preceding Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, March 3, 1861. he sugge of an honorable man. His confidence was betrayed, and this private letter to Mr. Seward was read to a large public meeting of the friends of Horatio Seymour, during
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
. He had chosen for Secretary of State, William H. Seward, of New York; for Secretary of the Treas in the picture, through one of the windows. Mr. Seward had been a prominent candidate for a nominatheir credentials to the President. See Secretary Seward's Memorandum for Messrs. Forsyth and Crawognition of inherent sovereignty, was met by Mr. Seward with his accustomed suavity of manner and un of self-support. The Secretary of State, Mr. Seward replied in his Memorandum, March 15, 1861. ts people, by merely calling it a State? Mr. Seward's Memorandum remained uncalled for and undel their unholy work. He had received from Secretary Seward such assurances of peaceful intentions on from Judge Campbell that they received from Mr. Seward, on the 1st of April, the assurance that he ners, and the letter of Judge Campbell to Secretary Seward, were soon published to the world, and mad his advisers acted in good faith, and that Mr. Seward's assurances were honestly given:-- On th[1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
truce to the insurgents to prevent further bloodshedding, and said: I respectfully suggest that Lord Lyons [the British Minister] be requested to act as mediator between the contending parties of our country. To these degrading propositions Secretary Seward replied, in behalf of the President, in which he expressed the deepest regret because of the public disturbances, and assured the Governor that the troops sought to be brought through Maryland were intended for nothing but the defense of thee. That sentiment is, that no domestic contention whatever, that may arise among the parties of this Republic, ought in any case to be referred to any foreign arbitrament, least of all to the arbitrament of a European monarchy. Letter of Secretary Seward to Governor Hicks, April 22, 1861. Still another embassy, in the interest of the secessionists of Baltimore, waited upon the President. These were delegates from five of the Young Men's Christian Associations of that city, with the Rev.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
few days afterward, March 9. by a circular letter from Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State under Mr. Lincoln, conjuring thepredators should be treated as pirates, See page 372. Mr. Seward addressed another circular to American ministers at the intrusted. Mr. Adams had already been instructed See Mr. Seward's Letter of Instructions to Mr. Adams, April 10, 1861. cking no favors of others. You will, in no case, said Mr. Seward, listen to any suggestions of compromise by this Governmive nations and of mankind. The high position taken by Mr. Seward, in the name of his Government, in that able letter of ilow their example, whatever it might be. Letter of Secretary Seward to Minister Adams, May 21, 1861. Thus, at this early , In his instructions to Mr. Dayton (April 22, 1861), Mr. Seward took the same high ground as in those to Mr. Adams. The th any portion of the United States. On the 4th of May, Mr. Seward instructed Mr. Dayton to say to M. Thouvenal, the French