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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 69 (search)
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63.-speech of Charles D. Drake, delivered at the city of Louisiana, Mo., July 4, 1861.
Fellow-citizens:--Honored by your invitation to address you on this venerated and cherished anniversary, I was led to comply, not less by a sense of dutiful obligation to our mother land, than by the impulse of true and reverent affection for those free institutions, which have been to the American people only a fountain of inestimable blessings, but which are now threatened with disaster, if not subversion and destruction.
Clouds and darkness are above us; the fires of unholy and reckless passions are around us; the convulsed earth trembles beneath us; and there is no Washington!
At such a time, I rejoice — and who that pretends to patriotism will not rejoice?--that I can still salute you as fellow-citizens, not only of the noble State we inhabit, but of those United States, to the Union of which Missouri owes her existence as an American State, and from the Union of which her people
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
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66.-message of President Lincoln. July 4, 1861.
Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:--Having been convened on an extraordinary occasion, as authorized by the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subject of legislation.
At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four months ago, the functions of the Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 74 (search)
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68.-report of the Secretary of the Navy.
Navy Department, July 4, 1861.
Sir :--When the change of Administration took place in March last, the Navy Department was organized on a peace establishment.
Such vessels as were in condition for service were chiefly on distant stations, and those which constituted the home squadron were most of them in the Gulf of Mexico.
Congress had adjourned without making provision for any extraordinary emergency, and the appropriations for naval purposes indicated that only ordinary current expenses were anticipated.
Extraordinary events which have since transpired have called for extraordinary action on the part of the Government, demanding a large augmentation of the naval force, and the recall of almost the whole of our foreign squadrons for service on our own coasts.
The total number of vessels in the navy, of all classes, on the 4th of March, was ninety, carrying, or designed to carry, about 2,415 guns.
Excluding vessels on
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc 81 .-Major S. D. Sturgis July 4 , 1861
Doc. 81.-Major S. D. Sturgis' proclamation. July 4, 1861.
To the Union-loving Citizens of Missouri:
The undersigned, learning with regret that evil-disposed persons, already in open rebellion against the Government of the United States, have spread rumors through the country in regard to the objects and practices of the Federal troops now among you, rumors calculated to alarm the peaceable citizens, avails himself of this occasion to assure the good people of Missouri that the mission
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 91 (search)
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82.-General Sweeny's proclamation.
Headquarters Southwest expedition, Springfield, Mo., July 4, 1861. To the Citizens of Southwest Missouri:
Your Governor has striven to cause the State to withdraw from the Union.
Failing to accomplish this purpose by legislative enactment, he has already committed treason by levying war against the United States.
He has endeavored to have you commit the same crime.
Hence he has called for troops to enter the military service of the State, not to aid, but to oppose the Government of the United States.
The troops under my command are stationed in your midst by the proper authority of our Government.
They are amongst you not as enemies but as friends and protectors of all loyal citizens.
Should an insurrection of your slaves take place, it would be my duty to suppress it, and I should use the force at my command for that purpose.
It is my duty to protect all loyal citizens in the enjoyment and possession of all their property, sl
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 190 (search)
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message of President Lincoln to the Federal Congress, 4th July, 1861. Once more, Representatives, Senators, all, You come to my Capitol, swift at my call. 'Tis well; for you've something important to do In this most disagreeable national stew; For since I came hither to run the machine, Disguised in Scotch cap and in full Lincoln green, There's the devil to pay in the whole d — d concern, As from Cameron, Seward, and Chase, you will learn; Yet, though every thing here of a burst — up gives warning, I'm certain you'll put it all right in the morning: So to do as I tell you, be on the alert, For the panic's fictitious, and nobody's hurt. I have started no war of invasion, you know; Let who will pretend to deny it — that's so; But I saw from the White House an impudent rag, Which they told me was known as Jeff. Davis' flag, A-waving above Alexandria high, Insulting my Government, flouting the sky; Above my Alexandria, (isn't it, Bates? Retrocession's a humbug; what rights have t<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 233 (search)
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compromise. Inscribed to the Congress of the United States, assembled in Extra session, July 4, 1861. by Edna Dean Proctor. Compromise!
Who dares to speak it On the nation's hallowed Day, When the air with thunder echoes, And the rocket-lightnings play? Compromise!
while on the dial Liberty goes ages back-- Scourged, and bound, for our denial, Firmer to the despot's rack? Compromise!
while angels tremble As we falter in the race! Cringe, and flatter, and dissemble-- We!
who hold such royal place? Compromise!
It suits the craven! Has our valor stooped so low? Have we lost our ancient ardor Face to face to meet the foe? Compromise is Treason's ally, Traitors' refuge, cowards' raid; All the wrongs that Justice suffers Flourish in its deadly shade. Compromise is base undoing Of the deeds our fathers wrought; They, for Right and Freedom suing-- We, disdaining what they bought. No!
By all the Mayflower's peril On the wild and wintry sea; By the Pilgrim's prayer ascending, As he
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 255 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 330 (search)
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thoughts suggested by the occasion, on the night of Thursday, July 4, 1861. by “J. C. B.” Night has enveloped in her robes the earth, And thousands in rejoicings unite, Commemorative of a Nation's birth, Which thrilled of yore each patriot with delight, And bade him hope that in this favored clime Freedom would bloom perennial through all time.
Standing upon Potomac's verdant shore, I gaze upon these tributes to the day, And, whilst the rockets and the camp-fires pour A radiance almost rivalling night's sway, I ponder sadly on events which bring To every heart a shadow and a sting.
Far more magnificent than all the show Which man conceited in his art would try, Behold the comet with mysterious glow Spreads its vast tail athwart the star-gemmed sky.
This “heavenly messenger” by some astronomers is supposed to he the return of that known as “the Emperor Charles the Fifth,” but this is doubted and denied by others, and it seems to have come unbidden and taken the w