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June 6th (search for this): chapter 7
ilitate the issue of such paper, all bank notes of this description emanating from private establishments were ordered to be suppressed; but the latter clause having been denounced as unconstitutional, it was never applied. New taxes had to be imposed in order to pay the interest on this constantly-increasing debt. The measures adopted on the 28th of May for the purpose of collecting funds in those districts where the two armies were contending proved altogether insufficient. On the 6th of June, Congress inaugurated an entire system of excise laws under the name of the internal revenue act, long prepared by Mr. Chase, which secured some important sources of revenue to the government, although at the cost of great discomfort to those branches of industry affected by it. These means not yet proving sufficient, the whole custom-house tariff was increased by the law of July 14th, being raised to the utmost limits of fiscal protection. The enormous rise in the prices of all articl
June 15th (search for this): chapter 7
; the New London vainly tried two nights in succession to get over the Manchac bar, and the Ceres was found too large to ascend the winding course of the Tangipahoa. Strong was obliged to send the New London back, and to enter the Manchac pass with the Ceres in broad daylight, the forces of the expedition being thus reduced to the troops on board this ship. A surprise was henceforth impracticable, which rendered it necessary to use the greater speed. Strong landed on the morning of the 15th of June near the bridge of the Manchac pass, which he proceeded to destroy, and at once pushed on with his small band toward Pontchitoula. A tropical sun darted its rays on the heads of the Federal soldiers, and was reflected from the putrid waters of the marshes by which they were surrounded. In order to cross these swamps they had nothing but the railway embankment to walk upon, and for several kilometres they were even obliged to jump from beam to beam over the open work of the bridges which
June 19th (search for this): chapter 7
uch a law was perfectly constitutional, the South having recognized the right of the central power to determine the legislation of the new Territories on the subject of slavery, at a time when she was in hopes of being herself benefited by such recognition. It was not the less the occasion of tempestuous debates, for it raised an impassable barrier around the slave States, and closed the door against every new compromise. This law was finally passed, and the President approved it on the 19th of June. Finally, on the 9th of July, the equality of the blacks with the whites in the District of Columbia was partially established by the admission of the former to testify before the courts on the same conditions as the latter. Pending the discussion of these laws, public attention was again directed to the treatment of fugitive slaves by some new incidents. The troops under Butler, who occupied the counties adjoining New Orleans, were everywhere surrounded by these fugitives, whose nu
June 27th (search for this): chapter 7
e him brought into court on habeas corpus. General Cadwalader, who was in command of the fort, refused to obey the summons of the judge to bring the prisoner before his court. The case was taken before Chief-justice Taney, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The latter, who was entirely devoted to the cause of the South, declared that the action of the Baltimore judge was perfectly legal. Mr. Lincoln instructed his agents to pay no attention to this decision. One month later, June 27th, General Banks, who was then in command at Baltimore, caused the arrest of four officers of the municipal police, who, although suspended by him, had persisted in issuing orders to their agents encouraging them to resist the authority of the government. They were taken to Fort Lafayette, near New York, and refused the privilege of the habeas corpus. These arrests, as might have been expected, formed the subject of warm discussions throughout the country. After two days deliberation, the
July (search for this): chapter 7
eing left in special charge of Albemarle Sound, undertook another expedition in the early part of July, at the very time when Burnside was embarking at Newberne. He penetrated into the Roanoke, easilictest blockade of the ports which the Confederates still possessed in that sea. About the end of July, Farragut finally returned to New Orleans with a portion of his fleet, after his campaign againstculties of the Federal treasury. In June, 1862, this premium was as high as twelve per cent.; in July, twenty and twenty-five per cent. The Bankers' Almanac names somewhat different figures, viz.: in June, maximum 91 per cent.; in July, maximum 20 1/4, minimum 9 per cent.—Ed. The law of July 11th had authorized the issue of treasury notes of small denominations, between five dollars and one, tspose of the shares. Such was the triple object of the law proposed to Congress in the course of July, and promulgated on the 19th of August, 1861. This law authorized the issue of one hundred mil
July 1st (search for this): chapter 7
ding this measure to the President; they offered him their co-operation in a letter dated June 28, 1862, the day when tidings were received of the commencement of the great struggle sustained by the army of the Potomac before Richmond. On the 1st of July, Mr. Lincoln hastened to reply to these patriotic offers, stating that he should call upon them for three hundred thousand men, and Congress immediately passed a resolution legalizing this call, and enabling the government to fill up the weakeld find no purchasers for the fourteen millions of bonds which still remained in his hands out of the twenty-one millions voted for in June, 1860, not being authorized to sell them below par; the loan of March 2d could not be issued before the 1st of July, and he was not allowed by the law of February 8th to dispose of more than nine millions. He disposed of this last scrip on the 25th of May, for the sum of eight million six hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars, of which six million thre
July 4th (search for this): chapter 7
of the fall of Fort Sumter, Mr. Lincoln had convened an extra session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, to meet on the 4th of July. When it assembled, the representatives and senators of the majority of the insurgent States failed to answer to thein the contrary, none of the ten Kentucky members appeared at the Capitol, but her two senators took their seats on the 4th of July, although one of them was Mr. Breckenridge, who a few months later was to enter the military service of the Southern Cs he had just convened, asked for a levy of four hundred thousand troops. At its short session, which lasted from the 4th of July till the 6th of August, this new Congress gave evidence of the patriotic zeal by which it was animated. On the 25th olaterals an equivalent quantity of the bonds, which he was unable to place on the market. When Congress met, on the 4th of July, at the call of the President, there was as great a necessity, as will be seen, for asking the American people to furn
July 7th (search for this): chapter 7
ent language of their opponents with contempt. He continued quietly to organize battalions of negroes, without concerning himself about the opinions of the representatives. These new troops relieved his soldiers by sharing their labors and service; but notwithstanding the success of this first experiment, considerable time elapsed before the Federal government concluded to follow Hunter in this direction. We shall quote, without pausing to comment upon it, the vote of Congress on the 7th of July, ratifying the convention on the right of search for the suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa, which had been concluded on the 7th of April between the government of Washington and Lord Lyons, the English minister. Southern statesmen, although protectionists in matters concerning slavery, had declined, when they controlled American policy, to take part in an international convention the avowed object of which was to strike at the servile institution. After the laws we
July 9th (search for this): chapter 7
restored at a later day. The question thus stated could not fail to provoke warm discussions on the part of the press and at political meetings in the North. Congress took up the subject soon after the beginning of its session, and on the 9th of July the House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring that in its opinion it was not the duty of soldiers to capture and restore fugitive slaves. Meanwhile, the number of these fugitives was daily on the increase; they assembled in thee occasion of tempestuous debates, for it raised an impassable barrier around the slave States, and closed the door against every new compromise. This law was finally passed, and the President approved it on the 19th of June. Finally, on the 9th of July, the equality of the blacks with the whites in the District of Columbia was partially established by the admission of the former to testify before the courts on the same conditions as the latter. Pending the discussion of these laws, publi
July 11th (search for this): chapter 7
y, that the United States at that period borrowed at the rate of seven and a half per cent. The pressing wants of the treasury obliged Congress on the 17th of March, 1862, to double the amount of this temporary loan, and to quadruple it on the 11th of July. This expedient not having, however, proved sufficient, the houses, March 1st, authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to satisfy the creditors of the government by means of certificates of indebted- ness, payable at the end of one year and , this premium was as high as twelve per cent.; in July, twenty and twenty-five per cent. The Bankers' Almanac names somewhat different figures, viz.: in June, maximum 91 per cent.; in July, maximum 20 1/4, minimum 9 per cent.—Ed. The law of July 11th had authorized the issue of treasury notes of small denominations, between five dollars and one, to the amount of thirty-five millions, and the law of July 17th even allowed notes of smaller denomination than those of one dollar to be put in ci
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