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Regiment, and myself a part of the time, were present at the examination; and to the honor of the
Lowell militia, no able-bodied man of suitable years said he would not go if called upon, and we so reported.
On the 19th of January, 1861, the following resolution, passed by the field officers and commanders of companies of the Sixth Regiment, was sent to the governor:--
Resolved, That Colonel Jones be authorized and requested forthwith to tender the services of the Sixth Regiment to the commander-in-chief and legislature, when such services may become desirable, for the purposes contemplated in General Order No. 4.
That resolution went to the governor on the 22d of January.
and on the same day
Governor Andrew sent the following message to the House of Representatives:--
I transmit herewith, for the information of the General Court, a communication offering to the commander-in-chief and the legislature the services of the Sixth Regiment, Third Brigade, Second Division of the Volunteer Militia of the Commonwealth, which was this day received by me from the hands of Brigadier-General Butler.
This was the only regiment that tendered its services.
Not that all would not have done so if they had had an opportunity or full instruction; but in
Lowell about that time there happened to be a couple of live men,--
Colonel Jones, who is now the
lieutenant-governor of the great
State of New York, and myself,--who believed beyond peradventure that we should soon be called upon.
In accordance with this message of the governor, the legislature on the 23d day of January, passed a resolve, a portion of which is as follows:--
Whereas, Several States of the Union have through the action of their people and authorities assumed the attitude of rebellion against the national government; and whereas, treason is still more extensively diffused; and whereas, the State of South Carolina, having first seized the Post-Office, Custom House, moneys, arms, munitions of war, and fortifications of the Federal Government, has, by firing upon a vessel in the service of the United States, committed an act .of war; and whereas, the forts and property of the United States, in Georgia, Alabama,
