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Empire City (Idaho, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
Confederacy is broken up, he continued, the Government is dissolved; and it behooves every distinct community, as well as every individual, to take care of themselves. When disunion has become a fixed and certain fact, why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master — to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce, taken away the power of self-government, and destroyed the confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City? Amid the gloom which the present and prospective condition of things must cast over the country, New York, as a free city, may shed the only light and hope for a future reconstruction of our blessed confederacy. One of the favorite writers for De, Boo's Review (already mentioned as the most stately and pretentious of the periodical publications in the Slave-labor States), and who was a leader of the peculiar Virginia aristocracy based on the ownership of slaves, pronounced this propo
Jefferson City (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
action on the subject of secession should be submitted to the vote of the people. The election resulted in the choice of a large majority of Union delegates Claiborne F. Jackson. by a heavy majority of the popular vote. They assembled at Jefferson City on the 28th of February. Their proceedings will be considered hereafter. Adjoining Missouri on the south, and lying between it and Louisiana, is Arkansas, a rapidly growing Cotton-producing State. The people were mostly of the planting cllification had lately been put forth as an orthodox dogma of the Democratic creed, and the movements of Calhoun and his political friends were looked upon with suspicion. At this dinner. it was soon apparent that the object was, not to honor Jefferson's memory, but to commence treasonable work with the sanction of his name and deeds. Jackson perceived this plainly, and offered as a toast, Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. Calhoun immediately arose and offered the following:--The Uni
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
9. action of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 210. patriotic attitude of Ohio and Indiana, 211. patriotic proceedings in Michigan and Illinois, 212. Wisconsin and Iowa pledge their aid to the Government, 213. Minnesota true to the Union, 214. encod will show. North of Ohio and Indiana, on a vast peninsula, whose shores are washed by magnificent inland seas, lies Michigan, with a population of almost eight hundred thousand. Its Legislature met at the beginning of January, January 2, 1861. Nation, and not a League of States. He recommended the Legislature to make the loyalty and patriotism of the people of Michigan apparent to the country; whereupon, that body passed some resolutions, February 2. pledging to the National Government to traitors, and refused to send delegates to the Peace Congress, or to repeal the Personal Liberty Act. The best blood Michigan flowed freely in the war, and the people nobly sustained the Government in the struggle for the life of the Republic.
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ated hereafter. It was the blood of Massachusetts soldiers that was first poured out in the terrible war for the life of the Republic, that soon commenced. Rhode Island, the smallest of the States, was full of patriotic zeal. Her large manufacturing interests were intimately connected with the States in which insurrections haallegiance to the National Government. Her youthful Governor (William Sprague), anxious for peace and union, recommended, in his message to the Legislature of Rhode Island, the repeal of the Personal Liberty Act on its statute-book, not from fear or cowardice, he said, but from a brave determination, in the face of threats and sns, and they sneered at generous acts like this as the pusillanimity of cowardly Yankees. It was the first and the last olive-branch offered to the traitors by Rhode Island. When they struck the blow, with deadly intent, at the life of the Republic, ten weeks later, she sent against them a sword in the hands of her Governor and o
Slave (Canada) (search for this): chapter 8
r the South, as they are right in the principles and possess the Constitution. If the public mind will bear it, the seat of Government, the Government itself, and the Army and Navy, ought to remain with the South and the Constitution. I have been promulgating the above sentiment, although it is rather revolutionary. A Provisional Government should be established at Washington to receive the power of the outgoing President, and for the President elect to take the oath of office out of Slave Territory. . . . If the Slave States would unite and form a convention, they might have the power to coerce the North into terms to amend the Constitution so as to protect Slavery more effectually. --Extract of a Letter from John Reynolds, of Belleville, Illinois, to Jefferson Davis and ex-Governor William Smith, of Virginia, dated December 28, 1860. Many influential public journals in the Free-labor States advocated the right of secession and the wrong of coercion. One of these, more widely
Michigan lake (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ings of that day, said Mr. Benton, who was present, revealed to the public mind the fact of an actual design tending to dissolve the Union. See Benton's Thirty Years View, i. 148. thirty years before:--Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. Little was done at that time, excepting the appointment of delegates to the Peace Congress; but throughout the war, Governor Yates and the people of Illinois performed a glorious part. Northward of Illinois, Wisconsin was spread out, between Lakes Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River, with a population of nearly eight hundred thousand. Its voters were Republicans by full twenty thousand majority. Its Governor, Alexander W. Randall, was thoroughly loyal. In his message to the Legislature, which convened at Madison on the 10th of January, 1861. he spoke of the doctrine of State Supremacy as a fallacy, and said:--The signs of the times indicate, in my opinion, that there may arise a contingency in the condition of the Government,
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8
tract of a Letter from John Reynolds, of Belleville, Illinois, to Jefferson Davis and ex-Governor William Smith, of Virginia, dated December 28, 1860. Many influential public journals in the Free-labor States advocated the right of secession and the wrong of coercion. One of these, more widely read and more frequently quoted in the South than any other, as the exponent of public opinion in the North, said:--For far less than this [the election of Mr. Lincoln] our fathers seceded from Great Britain; and they left revolution organized in every State, to act whenever it is demanded by public opinion. The confederation is held together only by public opinion. Each State is organized as a complete government, holding the purse and wielding the sword, possessing the right to break the tie of the confederation as a nation might break a treaty, and to repel coercion as a nation might repel invasion. --New York Herald, November 9, 1860. At a large political meeting in Philadelphia, on
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
will jeopardize the tranquillity of the Republic; and that the evacuation of Fort Sumter Is the first step that should be taken to restore harmony and peace. For Reiterating the idea put forth a few weeks before by the Rev. Dr. Smythe, of Charleston, in denunciation of the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, See f events with intense interest; and when the National flag was dishonored at Fort Sumter, their patriotism was most conspicuous, as we shall observe hereafter. Neon, but there was no occasion for its special revealment until the attack on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, when it blazed out terribly for the enemies of the Republico call for them at that time, and nothing was done until after the attack on Fort Sumter. Then the people of Wisconsin gave men and money freely to the great cause secession as revolution; condemning in severest terms the treasonable acts at Charleston, saying, that when one or more States appear in military array against the Go
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
adelphia, 209. action of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 210. patriotic attitude of Ohio and Indiana, 211. patriotic proceedings in Michigan and Illinois, 212. Wisconsin and Iowa pledge their aid to the Government, 213. Minnesota true to the Union, 214. encouragement for the conspirators, 215. Whilst the politicians of the Gntment of delegates to the Peace Congress; but throughout the war, Governor Yates and the people of Illinois performed a glorious part. Northward of Illinois, Wisconsin was spread out, between Lakes Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River, with a population of nearly eight hundred thousand. Its voters were Republicans bond to these words by acts, but no occasion seemed to call for them at that time, and nothing was done until after the attack on Fort Sumter. Then the people of Wisconsin gave men and money freely to the great cause of American Nationality. Westward of the Mississippi River, and stretching away northward along its course from t
Augusta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
thousand. Its people watched the rising tide of revolution with interest, and were among the first to offer barriers against its destructive overflow. The idea of nationality, so universally a sentiment among intelligent men all over the Free-labor States, made such action instinctive; and everywhere assurances of aid were given to the Chief Magistrate of the Republic. Israel Washburne, Jr., was then Governor of Maine. In his message to the Legislature, on the day of its assembling at Augusta, he ably reviewed the history of the Slavery question, and recommended the repeal of any laws that were unconstitutional. Allow no stain, he said, on the faith and devotion of the State to the Constitution and the rights of the States. He declared that the concessions demanded by the politicians of the Slave-labor States were wholly inadmissible, and incompatible with the safety of the Constitution, as the exponent and defender of republican institutions. He stigmatized secession as a cr
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