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Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ce movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. Assembling of the Peace Conventionhad been flooding the whole State House at Montgomery. region between the Savannah and Tombigbee counseled its seizure. In the Convention at Montgomery, Rhett urged that policy with vehemence, andConstitution declared that the Convention at Montgomery was a Congress, vested with all the legislatwhen it was unfurled over the State House at Montgomery. The first assumption of sovereignty on t seeking employment from the Confederates at Montgomery. Preparations were now February 15, 1861apprised of his election, and he hastened to Montgomery on the circuitous railway route by the way othe Convention and the public authorities of Montgomery met him eight miles from the city. Februarytting agents to assist >the white House at Montgomery. him in his nefarious work, and ostentatiouthern steel, Jefferson Davis's speech at Montgomery. See page 257. mankind were plainly notifi[6 more...]
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ned them. He counseled them to assume all responsibility necessary to the accomplishment of the work they had entered upon. With a consciousness of the justice of our cause, he said, and with confidence in the guidance and blessings of a kind Providence, we will this day inaugurate for the South a new era of peace, security, and prosperity. As the delegates assumed to be representatives of Sovereign States, it was agreed that all votes should be taken by States. Having adopted rules for ththe old Constitution, entertained the erroneous idea that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. They erroneously believed that in the order of Providence the institution would be evanescent and pass away. That, he said, was the prevailing idea of the fathers, who rested upon the false assumption put forth in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. This was in flat co
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Assembling of the Peace Convention at Washington City, 235. Sincerity of the Virginia politicinference, assembled in Willard's Hall, in Washington City, a large room in a building originally ertes, that their body convened in the city of Washington on the 4th instant, and continued in session alluded to. The following is a copy:-- Washington, February 22, 1861. my dear Sir:--I foundthe parade. The day is the anniversary of Washington's birth — a festive occasion throughout the hich now link together the various parts. Washington's Farewell Address to his countrymen. One day when the Peace Convention assembled at Washington to deliberate upon plans for preserving the rchives of the Confederate Government, at Washington City. It was discussed that day and a part of rchives of the Confederate Government, at Washington City. The Committee finally made an elaborate of the President of the United States, at Washington City, being white, has always been better know[4 more...]
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
se was speedily so impaired, that they went wandering about, seeking in vain for willing listeners among men of character in diplomatic circles; and, finally, they abandoned their missions in disgust, to the relief of statesmen who were wearied with their importunities and offended by their duplicity: Mr. Stephens assumed the office of expounder of the principles upon which the new government was founded and was to be established. He made the occasion of a speech to the citizens of Savannah, Georgia, March 21, 1861. the opportunity for giving that exposition to the world. He declared that the immediate cause of the rebellion was African Slavery existing in the United States; and said that Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the rock on which the Union would split. He doubted whether Jefferson understood the truth on which that rock stood. He, and most of the leaders at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, entertained the erroneous idea that the en
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
l wing of the Anti-slavery party, in an address in Boston, on the Political lessons of the hour, declared himself to be a disunion man, and was glad to see South Carolina and other Slave-labor States had practically initiated a disunion movement. He hoped that all the Slave-labor States would leave the Union, and not stand upon the order of their going, but go at once. He denounced the compromise spirit manifested by Mr. Seward and Charles Francis Adams, with much severity of language.--Springfield (Mass.) Republican, January 23, 1861. and Lieutenant-General Scott, who knew what were the horrors Winfield Scott in 1865. of war, seems to have contemplated this alternative without dread. In a letter addressed to Governor Seward, on the day preceding Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, March 3, 1861. he suggested a limitation of the President's field of action in the premises to four measures, namely:--1st, to adopt the Crittenden Compromise; 2d, to collect duties outside of the ports of s
Pacific Ocean (search for this): chapter 10
ive. were yet ringing in the ears of the people, and his present attitude needed explanation. He thought it prudent not to attempt any explanation, and simply remarked: It is sufficient for me to say, that it may be deemed questionable if any good citizen can refuse to discharge any duty which may be assigned him by his country in her hour of need. At Milledgeville, in November, See page 54. Mr. Stephens's vision of his c country embraced the whole Republic, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and from the region of ice to the region of perpetual bloom, with a population of more than thirty millions. At Montgomery, in February--ninety dayslater — he saw his country dwarfed to the insignificant area of six Cotton-producing States on the coast, with a population of four millions five hundred thousand, nearly one-half of whom were bond-slaves, and a seventh (Texas) just marching up to join the sad assemblage of recusants. After the election of Davis and Stephens, the Convent
Tunstall (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
le fabric of free institutions erected by the fathers. At the close of the address, the oath of office was administered to Davis by Howell Cobb, the President of the Convention. In the evening, after the inauguration, Davis, in imitation of the custom at the National Capital, held a levee at Estelle Hall; and Montgomery was brilliantly lighted up by bonfires and illuminations. A spacious mansion was soon afterward provided for Davis and his. family, and it became distinguished as the White House of the Southern Confederacy. The official residence of the President of the United States, at Washington City, being white, has always been better known by the title of The white House than by any other. Davis chose, from among the most active of his fellow-conspirators, fitting agents to assist >the white House at Montgomery. him in his nefarious work, and ostentatiously titled them in imitation of the National Government. He called Robert Toombs to act as Secretary of State ;
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ar, by instructing the Military and Naval Committees to report plans for the organization of an army and navy, and to make provision for the officers in each service who had deserted their flag and were seeking employment from the Confederates at Montgomery. Preparations were now February 15, 1861. made for the reception and inauguration of Davis. He was at his home near Vicksburg when apprised of his election, and he hastened to Montgomery on the circuitous railway route by the way of Jackson, Grand Junction, Chattanooga, and West Point. His journey was a continuous ovation. He made twenty-five speeches on the way, all breathing treason to the Government by whose bounty he had been educated and fed, and whose laws he had frequently sworn to uphold. A committee of the Convention and the public authorities of Montgomery met him eight miles from the city. February 15. At Opelika, two companies from Columbus, Georgia, joined the escort. He reached his destination at ten o'clock
Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 10
onfederates, having assumed for their league a national character, at once presented their claims to recognition as such by the powers of the earth. They sent commissioners to Europe to secure formal recognition by, and make commercial arrangements with, the leading governments there. These Commissioners were William L. Yancey, of Alabama; P. A. Rost<*> of Louisiana; A. Dudley Mann, of Virginia; and T. Butler King, of Georgia. Yancey was to operate in England, Rost in France, and Mann in Holland and Belgium. King seems to have had a sort of roving commission. Yancey had more real ability and force of character than either of the others. He was not a statesman, but a demagogue, and lacked almost every requisite for a diplomatist. He could fill with wild passion an excitable populace at home, but he utterly failed to impress the more sober English mind with a sense of his wisdom or the justice of his cause. Rost was a Frenchman, who emigrated to Louisiana in early life, married
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
tary and Naval Committees to report plans for the organization of an army and navy, and to make provision for the officers in each service who had deserted their flag and were seeking employment from the Confederates at Montgomery. Preparations were now February 15, 1861. made for the reception and inauguration of Davis. He was at his home near Vicksburg when apprised of his election, and he hastened to Montgomery on the circuitous railway route by the way of Jackson, Grand Junction, Chattanooga, and West Point. His journey was a continuous ovation. He made twenty-five speeches on the way, all breathing treason to the Government by whose bounty he had been educated and fed, and whose laws he had frequently sworn to uphold. A committee of the Convention and the public authorities of Montgomery met him eight miles from the city. February 15. At Opelika, two companies from Columbus, Georgia, joined the escort. He reached his destination at ten o'clock at night, where he was rec
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