hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 0 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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 0 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 II. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) or search for Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 3 document sections:

Several resolutions were adopted, almost unanimously, declaring loyalty to the Union, and ability to defend ourselves against all enemies of the Union, deprecating any interference with the shipment of arms under government orders, however inopportune or impolitic the order might appear; deploring the existing state of things in connection with the administration of important departments of the public service so as to have shaken confidence in the people of the free States; that while Pennsylvania is on guard at the Federal capital it is her special duty to look to the fidelity of her sons, and in that view call on the President, as a citizen of this Commonwealth, to see that the public receive no detriment at his hands; it behooves the President to purge his Cabinet of every man known to give aid and comfort to, or in any way countenancing the revolt of any State against the authority of the Constitution and the laws of the Union. A dispatch from the Hon. Robert McKnight ask
and approve the proposition of Woodson, of Missouri--having for its foundation that separation being inevitable, a reconstruction of the Union upon a Southern basis is the only solution of pending political questions, and recommends that the slaveholding States should withdraw, taking the present Constitution with additional clauses, explanatory of the true intent and meaning as expounded by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, upon which it is supposed that New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and New Jersey would unite. The argument is that the remaining States would necessarily be formed into two distinct confederations — those of New England one, and the Pacific States the other. --All co-operating under the present Constitution of the United States, with such modifications as would adapt it to their respective peculiar social system and public sentiment, thus forming a league or confederacy uniting the different sections in all the essential
Assembling of Legislatures. --The Legislatures of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York assemble to-morrow. The Governor of Kentucky has called an extra session of the Legislature, to convene on the 17th of January.