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France (France) (search for this): chapter 7
ople—of those, at least, among whom, whatever their form of government, the most ardent passions acknowledge the supreme authority of the law, and where all citizens submit without murmuring to the institutions of the country. But when these institutions are themselves in jeopardy, when the laws are trampled under foot by a fraction of citizens who resort to violence, the application of the habeas corpus becomes impossible. The English do not hesitate to suspend it in such cases, where, in France, a state of siege is proclaimed, for in all countries the first duty of society is to defend itself against those who attack it. At the outset of the war the South had accomplices throughout the North, and especially among the border States, who occupied positions under the Federal administration. The government required extraordinary powers to strike some of them, and thus to check the treason which was creeping into every place. The guarantees secured by the Constitution to all citize
Roanoke (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s of which the coast of the Confederate States was the theatre during the second half of that year. In the chapter on Roanoke, contained in the first volume, we gave an account of the operations of the Federals on the coast of North Carolina untiorder to preserve and extend Burnside's conquests in the inland 606 sea which bears the name of Pamlico Sound, south of Roanoke, and Albemarle Sound, north of this island. Pamlico Sound penetrates into the low lands of North Carolina westward bywn called Elizabeth City. The western extremity of Albemarle Sound terminates at the entrance of the important river of Roanoke, which, descending from the Alleghanies, where it takes its rise, runs along the boundary-line of the States of Virginiaut, in the vicinity of Goldsboroa, the track of that Richmond and Wilmington line of railway which, since the capture of Roanoke eight months before, the Federals had been vainly seeking to destroy. In this expedition he was deprived of the suppo
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
. The complicity of the latter with the insurgents, especially in Maryland, was not doubted; but as the courts of this State were entirely coous proceedings, however, had not discouraged the secessionists of Maryland. The legislature had been elected under their auspices, and they ainst the servile institution not to have a rebounding effect upon Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, despite all the provisions of the law whicn a fortnight after Congress had passed the law, slave-owners from Maryland were seen to visit a Federal camp, provided with an order from Gen Southern Confederacy. If applied only to the States of Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Missouri and Tennessee, it would have involve been revived after the great excitement caused by the invasion of Maryland was for a moment suspended, just as the murmurs of a crowd are husority. The proclamation naturally did not extend to the States of Maryland and Delaware, which had never participated in the rebellion; nor t
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 7
Columbia, applied their political principles wherever they did not clash with the provisions of the Constitution. On the 21st of May a law was passed proclaiming the equality of all citizens in that district, without distinction of color, and declaring that they should all be subject to the same laws, the same regulations and the same penalties, and finally opening the school doors to children of African descent. A few days later, Congress officially recognized the republics of Hayti and Liberia, by voting, on the 3d of June, the necessary appropriations for establishing diplomatic relations with them; the statesmen of the South had always opposed this recognition to avoid being obliged to receive negro envoys at Washington. In the course of the same month Congress gave proof of the determination and spirit which animated it, by a decision which was otherwise also of great importance. We have seen that the struggle between slavery and free labor had its principal theatre in the n
Galveston (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
, with four gun-boats, to take possession of Galveston. This town is situated near the eastern extg and stopped emigration. The occupation of Galveston would have favored such emigration, for it o to prepare for the projected attack against Galveston. The troops who had invaded and then abandon. The Federals, after the occupation of Galveston, had suffered themselves to be lulled into aof artillery. These troops were expected at Galveston in the last days of December. Magruder deteow that only one of them, the Saxon, reached Galveston before the 31st of December, with three hundn-boats, they encamped upon the very pier of Galveston. It was feared to scatter them about the toheir fire upon Magruder's troops in front of Galveston. Day had scarcely dawned, and the combat achem and the Corypheus were steaming out of Galveston under Law's direction, Renshaw ordered the cevented this new disaster. The capture of Galveston made a profound impression in the South, and[11 more...]
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 7
e grouped according as they may have taken place on the northern or southern part of the Atlantic coast, or on the eastern or western part of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or on the high seas. We begin at the north of the Atlantic coast, where the Federal blockading squadron was placed under the orders of Commodore Goldsboropreparing for the siege of Charleston, which he proposed to undertake in the spring of 1863. We shall therefore pass from the Atlantic coast to that of the Gulf of Mexico, where we left the Federals after the conquest of New Orleans in the latter part of April, 1862. The capture of this great city, instead of setting Farragut'attles which the Federal admiral fought on the Mississippi waters during the summer. The task assigned during this time to the few vessels he had left in the Gulf of Mexico was confined to the maintenance of the strictest blockade of the ports which the Confederates still possessed in that sea. About the end of July, Farragut fin
Bluff Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
land 606 sea which bears the name of Pamlico Sound, south of Roanoke, and Albemarle Sound, north of this island. Pamlico Sound penetrates into the low lands of Nate into the very interior of the State. The river waters which flow into Albemarle Sound also form a certain number of deep inlets on the northern shore of this ins, stands the little town called Elizabeth City. The western extremity of Albemarle Sound terminates at the entrance of the important river of Roanoke, which, desceely to be met the villages of Weldon, Hamilton, Williamston and Plymouth. Albemarle Sound extends northward, between the mainland and the sand-bank by which it is bfortnight of May, four gun-boats, commanded by Lieutenant Flusser, scoured Albemarle Sound, carrying off the machinery appertaining to the lighthouse of Wade's Pointoke. Flusser, with five or six vessels, being left in special charge of Albemarle Sound, undertook another expedition in the early part of July, at the very time
Hamilton, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ly overcame the obstacles which the Confederates had placed in his way, seized one of the enemy's steamers fitted out as a man-of-war, which was not expecting to meet the Federal fleet so high up in the river, and, after reaching the village of Hamilton, returned to Plymouth, where he landed a few troops. This expedition proved, in the first instance, that the Confederates did not possess any ship of a really formidable character in the Roanoke; secondly, that this river was not sufficiently d Rainbow's Bluff, where was planted a battery constructed so as to command the river, but on the approach of the Federals they retired to Tarboroa. On the 5th, Foster, ascending the Roanoke, found this work abandoned, and reached the village of Hamilton, where several houses were burnt down by undisciplined soldiers. Leaving the gun-boats to guard this point, the Federals started for Tarboroa on the 6th, and encamped in the evening at sixteen kilometres from this village. But the march had be
Wade Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ates, who were still in possession of the arsenal of that name, might use this channel for the purpose of transferring into the waters of North Carolina the flotilla which was blockaded by the Monitor. The operation was accomplished without any opposition on the 24th of April, shortly before the evacuation of Norfolk. During the first fortnight of May, four gun-boats, commanded by Lieutenant Flusser, scoured Albemarle Sound, carrying off the machinery appertaining to the lighthouse of Wade's Point, on the Chowan, which the Confederates had concealed in a farmhouse; and, destroying several provision stores, they subsequently appeared before Elizabeth City, and finally returned to the island of Roanoke. Flusser, with five or six vessels, being 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, easily overcame the obstacles which the Confederate
Terceira (Portugal) (search for this): chapter 7
nt was tendering to Mr. Adams the assurances of vain regrets. A few days later, Semmes, who had found at Nassau an order directing him to take command of this vessel, arrived at Liverpool, and immediately took a special boat for the island of Terceira (one of the Azores). Here was performed the last act in the metamorphosis of the Chinese steamer into a privateer, or rather, as we shall see presently, into a Confederate pirate. An English brig, loaded with cannon, ammunition and arms of everh was the first successor of the Sumter—her departure from England despite the notification of Mr. Adams, her seizure and release at Nassau; then the first appearance of the Alabama, her equipment in the ship-yards of Birkenhead, her armament at Terceira, and the vain protest of the United States legation against these hostile acts. Although American commerce suffered severely by this violation of international law, the Americans could not make it a pretext for declaring war against their marit
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