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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Conflagration in Hickman --
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Public sentiment in the North.
The following letter is from an intelligent gentleman of Maine to one of the most prominent and estimable Union members of the Convention.
Unquestionably, it discloses the true state of Northern public sentiment:
Portland, April 6, 1861.
Some time ago I wrote you, and requested two edicament of persons losing their property by reason of an unlucky speculation or a bad investment.
I am speaking of the sentiments of the people in this region.
Maine, I am sorry to say, shows no disposition to recede from her position upon that cunningly devised scheme of abolitionism, the Chicago platform.
We have not begun t
Probably we should never feel very sensibly in our material interests a permanent disruption of the Union, save in the event of a consequent civil war Therefore, Maine will be slow to retrace her steps.
For my own part, I despair of the Republic.
The Union, with all its memories and high hopes, is, I fear, irrevocably gone.
Pe
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Conflagration in Hickman --
(search)twenty-seven houses burned.
The Number of troops each State is to furnish. Washington, April 15.
--The following are the quotas of troops which the respective States will be required by the Secretary of War to furnish: Maine, 7,080; New Hampshire, 7,080; Vermont, 7,080; Massachusetts, 15,060; Rhode Island, 7,080; Connecticut, 7,080; New York, 13,280; Pennsylvania, 12,500; New Jersey 3,123; Delaware, 7,080; Maryland, 3,123; Virginia 2,340; North Carolina 1,560; Tennessee, 1,560; Arkansas, 7,080; Kentucky, 3,123; Missouri, 3,123; Illinois, 4,683; Indiana, 4,683; Ohio, 10,153; Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota 780 each.
The Secretary of War accepted the services by telegraph of the 1,000 troops tendered from Rhode Island, and directed them to proceed to Washington without delay.
It is stated that the Government has no present design of instituting martial law in Washington.
Twenty thousand troops will probably be in Washington in twenty days.