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Pacific Ocean (search for this): chapter 8
e Legislature was ready to respond 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 the borders of Missouri, were the young and vigorous States of Iowa and Minnesota; and across the continent, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, was California. The hearts of the people of these States beat responsive to Union sentiments whenever uttered. Iowa had nearly seven hundred thousand inhabitants. Its Governor, Samuel J. Kirkwood, was thoroughly loyal, and spared no exertions in raising troops for the defense of the State against lawless insurgents that might come up from Missouri, and in aid of the National Government, Samuel J. Kirkwood. when the President called for them. In this emergency, the Governor said,
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
nnessee, the daughter of North Carolina, like those of the parent State, loved the Union supremely; but their Governor, Isham G. Harris, was an active traitor, and had been for months in confidential correspondence with the conspirators in the Gulf States and in South Carolina and Virginia. He labored unceasingly, with all of his official power, to place his State in alliance with the Al enemies of the Union. For that purpose he called a special session of the Legislature, to assemble at Nashville on the 7th of January. In his message, he recited a long list of so-called grievances which the people of the State had suffered under the National Government; appealed to their passions and prejudices, and recommended several amendments to the Constitution, which would give to the support of Slavery Isham G. Harris. all that its advocates desired, as a remedy for those grievances. The Legislature provided for a State Convention, but decreed that when the people should elect the delega
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
resolved to accept no compromises or concessions, 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 others, that performed brave deeds in the cause of our nationality. In the remaining New England States, namely, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut, nothing specially noteworthy William Sprague. was done in relation to the secession movement, before the insurgents commenced actual war, in April; but in the great State of New York, whose population was then nearly three millions nine hundred thousand, and whose chief city was the commercial metropolis of the Republic, much was done to attract public attention. The Legislature assembled at the beginning of January, and the Governor, Edwin D. Morgan, in
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
uch was the attitude of Kentucky at the beginning. A little later, its public authorities and other leading men endeavored to, give to it a position of absolute neutrality. Missouri, lying west of the Mississippi River,. was another Border State of great importance. Its population in 1860 was one million one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and seventeen, of whom one hundred and fifteen thousand were slaves. Its inhabitants had been agitated more or less by the troubles in Kansas, a State stretching along almost the whole of its western border, where the friends and enemies of the, Slave system of labor had quarreled and fought for several years previous to the year 1858. In that school of experience, the Missourians had been pretty well instructed concerning the questions at issue in the now impending conflict; and when they were called upon to act, they did so intelligently. They knew the value of the Union; and the great body of the people reprobated the teachin
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
decided by the popular vote. The secessionists denounced this decree as an emasculation of the Convention Bill, and subjecting to imminent peril all that the people of Virginia hold most sacred and dear, both as to the Federal Constitution and the honor of the State Richmond Enquirer.--in other words, imperiling the scheme of the conspirators to drag the people of Virginia into revolution. The decree delighted the loyal people of the State, and numerous Union meetings were held in Western Virginia. While the Legislature seemed to be thoroughly inoculated with the revolutionary virus, it felt the restraints of the popular sentiment too forcibly to allow it to disregard the popular will, and several measures looking to a settlement of existing difficulties were proposed in that body. Finally, on the 19th of January, a series of resolutions were adopted, recommending a National Convention to be held in the City of Washington on the 4th day of February, for the alleged purpose of
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
hiladelphia, 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 ai join a northern confederacy; should she make New England, western New York, northern Ohio, northern Indiana, or northern Illinois her masters; should she make enemies of her Southern friends, and dellves, who were friends of the conspirators and their cause. Adjoining Ohio, on the west, lay Indiana, another great and growing State carved out of the Northwestern Territory, with over one millio and the people were grandly faithful to the end, as our record will show. North of Ohio and Indiana, on a vast peninsula, whose shores are washed by magnificent inland seas, lies Michigan, with ahe Republic. Illinois, the home of the President elect, and more populous than its neighbor, Indiana, the number of its inhabitants being over one million seven hundred thousand, had a loyal Gover
Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
e city does not secede, and erect a separate republic, this population, aided by the ignorant, base, brutal, sensual German infidels of the northwest, the stupid democracy of Canada (for Canada will, in some way, coalesce with the North), and the arrogant and tyrannical people of New England will become masters of the destinies of New York. They hate her for her sympathies with the South, and will so legislate as to divert all her western trade to outlets through Chicago, the St. Lawrence, Portland, and Boston. She will then be cut off from her trade North and South. In fine, she must set up for herself or be ruined. --George Fitzhugh in De Bow's Review for February, 1861. His own treasonable words seemed to have startled him, and given him visions of a felon's cell, for he immediately added, meekly--Yet I am not prepared to recommend the violence implied in these views. The Board of Aldermen ordered three thousand copies of this message to be printed in document form. The se
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
de 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 thay northward along its course from the borders of Missouri, were the young and vigorous States of Iowa and Minnesota; and across the continent, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, was California. The hearts of the people of these States beat responsive to Union sentiments whenever uttered. Iowa had nearly seven hundred thousand inhabitants. Its Governor, Samuel J. Kirkwood, was thoroughly loyal Samuel J. Kirkwood. when the President called for them. In this emergency, the Governor said, Iowa must not, and does not, occupy a doubtful position. For the Union, as our fathers formed it, and for the Government they framed so wisely and so well, the people of Iowa are ready to pledge every fighting man in the State, and every dollar of her money and credit. That pledge was nobly redeemed
Belleville, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
omulgating 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 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
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
eeming desire to save the Republic, he proposed that all constitutional remedies should be exhausted before withdrawing from the Union, saying:--Is it not monstrous to see a Government like ours destroyed, merely because men cannot agree about a domestic institution which existed at the formation of the Government, and which is now recognized by fifteen out of the thirty-three States comprising the Union? At the same time, he instituted inquiries concerning the strength and garrison of Fortress Monroe, within the limits of his State, and the probability of success, should available Virginia troops attempt to seize it. He was advised, by a competent judge, that the attempt would fail, and he abandoned the contemplated scheme. Letcher, no doubt, knew the plans of the conspirators of his section, and counseled inaction for the moment, until the revolutionary movements in the Gulf region should be more fully developed. A disruption is inevitable, he said, and if new confederations ar
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