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James Buchanan (search for this): chapter 6
o Washington after the expiration of the term of Mr. Buchanan. This city will be seized and occupied as the c allow the electoral votes to be counted; proclaim Buchanan provisional President, if he will do as we wish, ahas been done here, but depend upon nothing that Mr. Buchanan promises. He will cheat us unless we are too qu inclined to give the order; See Letter of President Buchanan to the Commissioners of South Carolina, Decemonal Intelligencer on the 21st of October, 1862, Mr. Buchanan says that it was at his request that Floyd resigloyal people of the Republic. The purification of Buchanan's Cabinet went on, and there was a general change Secretary of War during the last seventy days of Mr. Buchanan's administration, that no such pledge was ever ghe civil war, says, that he was sent there by President Buchanan as his confidential agent, to assure the insu 1861. and by Thompson, one of the conspirators in Buchanan's Cabinet, who was afterward an accomplice in deed
James L. Orr (search for this): chapter 6
eventful week we are considering. It was the arrival and action of Messrs. Barnwell, Adams, and Orr, the Commissioners for South Carolina. They evidently expected to stay a long time, as embassadothe Commissioners addressed a formal diplomatic letter to the President, drawn up, it is said, by Orr, who was once Speaker of the Rebidence of the Commissioners. the house next to the open space of Representatives, and who had been denounced in his own State as the prince of demagogues. Orr's views seem to have undergone a change. In a letter to the editor of the Charleston Mercury, dated January 24, 1858, Andrew Calhoun said:--I found, on my return to this State, that Orr, that prince of demagogues, had, by all kinds of appliances, so nationalized public opinion about here, that harleston harbor, but they were restrained by pledges given in a manner that they could not James L. Orr. doubt. See page 102. They assured him that until the circumstances of Anderson's movement
Samuel J. Kirkwood (search for this): chapter 6
control the Government. God only knows what is to be the fate of my poor country! To Him alone must we look in this hour of thick darkness. The writer left the venerable ex-Minister of State, and went over to the War and Navy Departments. The offices were closed for the day, but the halls and lobbies were resonant with the voices of excited men. There were treasonable utterances there, shocking to the ears of loyal citizens. I went to the hotels on Pennsylvania Avenue--Willard's, the Kirkwood, Brown's, and The National, and found them swarming with guests, for it was then the late dinner-hour. There was wild excitement among them; secession cockades were plentiful, and treason and sedition walked as boldly and defiantly in these hotels, and in the streets of the National Capital, as in the Mills House, and the streets of Charleston. I took up the newspapers, and found no word of comfort therein for the lovers of the country. The long-threatened result of Black Republican T
M. Mercier (search for this): chapter 6
Franklin Row) Joseph Holt. K Street, as their ministerial residence. There they took up their abode on their arrival, on the 26th, with servants and other necessaries for carrying on a domestic establishment, and Trescot was duly installed their Secretary. They were greeted with distinguished consideration by their fellow-conspirators, and the multitude of sympathizers in the National Capital; and they doubtless had roseate dreams' of official and social fellowship with Lord Lyons, M. Mercier, Baron Von Gerolt, and other foreign ministers then in Washington. That dream, however, assumed the character of a nightmare, when, on the following day, they heard of Anderson and his gallant little band being in Fort Sumter. On the 28th, December, 1860. the Commissioners addressed a formal diplomatic letter to the President, drawn up, it is said, by Orr, who was once Speaker of the Rebidence of the Commissioners. the house next to the open space in the picture. National Hou
Jeremiah S. Black (search for this): chapter 6
edly true, makes Floyd's high-sounding words about wounded patriotism and honor, in connection with his infamous official career, appear extremely ridiculous. His resignation was immediately accepted, and his place filled by the patriotic Kentuckian, Joseph Holt. Then a load of anxiety was lifted from the burdened hearts of the loyal people of the Republic. The purification of Buchanan's Cabinet went on, and there was a general change in the ministry by the middle of January. When Attorney-General Black succeeded General Cass as Secretary of State, his office was filled by Edwin M. Stanton, afterward Secretary of War under President Lincoln; Philip F. Thomas, of Maryland, had succeeded Cobb as Secretary of the Treasury. Unwilling to assist the Government in enforcing the laws, Thomas resigned, See his Letter of Resignation, January 11, 1861. and was succeeded by John A. Dix, a stanch patriot of New York. Thompson left the Interior Department on the 8th, January, 1861. and, like
Horace Greeley (search for this): chapter 6
it, by respecting the Federal authority down to the close of his Administration. He says the time of this mission was at the middle of December, and that General Cushing, having been informed that his being a representative of the Federal authority had cast a sudden mildew on his popularity in that stronghold of secession, remained there but five hours, when he returned to Washington, and his report was the theme of a stormy and protracted Cabinet meeting. See The American Conflict: by Horace Greeley, i.,409. I have the authority of a letter from General Cushing himself, dated 26th March, 1865, for saying, that the single and sole object of his visit (which was on the 20th of December) was to endeavor to counteract the mad scheme of secession. The visit was suggested or promoted by gentlemen at Washington of the very highest authority, North and South, including the President. At the very moment when General Cushing entered Charleston, the bells were beginning to ring, and salutes
William Howard Russell (search for this): chapter 6
hurt of the national credit, at a critical time. The troops were stationed there at a point called Camp Floyd; and the Secretary had contracted with the firm of Russell, Major, & Waddell for the transportation of supplies thither from Fort Leavenworth, and other points on the Missouri River. For this service they were to receiveal, that they could with difficulty be negotiated. The contractors became embarrassed by the difficulty, and hit upon a scheme for raising money more rapidly. Russell had become acquainted with Goddard Bailey, a South Carolinian and kinsman of Floyd, who was the clerk in the Interior Department in whose special custody were the When, as we have observed, the financial affairs of the country became clouded, late in 1860, See page 115. these bonds depreciated, and the holders called on Russell for additional security. Bailey supplied him with more bonds, December 13. until the whole amount was the sum of eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Whe
Jacob Thompson (search for this): chapter 6
ich was in the custody of the conspirator, Jacob Thompson, the Secretary of the Interior. The princposition that he was driven to a confession. Thompson, his employer, was then in North Carolina, onwhich was compromised by illegal advances. Thompson returned to Washington on the 22d, when the l of discovering the thief was then performed, Thompson being chief manager. The Attorney-General, ay John A. Dix, a stanch patriot of New York. Thompson left the Interior Department on the 8th, Janthe Commissioners from South Carolina, and Jacob Thompson, all engaged in the commission of the highe President countermanded the order; and when Thompson, the Secretary of the Interior, who was doubtd decided in the Cabinet. Speech of ex-Secretary Thompson at Oxford, Mississippi. Pledges toe West. Letter of Secretary Holt to ex-Secretary Thompson, March 5, 1861. The countermand was seld office, New York, January 23, 1861. and by Thompson, one of the conspirators in Buchanan's Cabine[2 more...]
Henry A. Wise (search for this): chapter 6
organ of the Administration. I went home with a friend living near Bladensburg. His family physician — a small, fiery man, named Garnett, and son-in-law of ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia--came to see a sick child. He was full of passion. Noble South Carolina, he said, has done her duty bravely. Now Virginia and Maryland must ibe Lincoln to set his foot on its soil. The little enthusiast was only the echo of the Virginia conspirators. A few days before, the Richmond Enquirer, edited by Wise's son, who perished while in arms against his country, thus insolently concluded an article on the subject of sending commissioners from that State to others:--Letviting coercion. This was the way Patrick Henry brought about the Revolution, and this is the best use that Virginia can make of commissioners of any kind. Governor Wise had already publicly announced that, in the event of an attempt at coercion on the part of the National Government, Fortress Monroe, the Navy Yard at Gosport,
Charles Francis Adams (search for this): chapter 6
ernment in enforcing the laws, Thomas resigned, See his Letter of Resignation, January 11, 1861. and was succeeded by John A. Dix, a stanch patriot of New York. Thompson left the Interior Department on the 8th, January, 1861. and, like Floyd, hastened to his own State to assist in the work of rebellion. There was still another cause for excitement in Washington and throughout the country, during the eventful week we are considering. It was the arrival and action of Messrs. Barnwell, Adams, and Orr, the Commissioners for South Carolina. They evidently expected to stay a long time, as embassadors of their Sovereign State near the Government of the United States. Their fellow-conspirator, W. H. Trescot, who had just left the State Department, in which he could be no longer useful to the enemies of his country, had hired the fine dwelling-house of the widow of Captain Joseph Smoot, of the United States Navy, No. 352 (Franklin Row) Joseph Holt. K Street, as their ministeri
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