January 21, 1861, The New York Herald According to our Washington advices, the war party in the South will not proceed further in their operations until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan’s term of office. This is a sign that the more sensible of the secessionists are getting the upper hand, and that the ardor of [...]

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald PETERSBURG, Va., Jan. 19, 1861. One thousand kegs of powder and twenty thousand pounds of shot and shell from the Tredegar Works, Richmond, left this morning, by special train by the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, destined to Charleston, to the order of Governor Pickens.

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald There was a rumor in Washington last night to the effect that fighting had commenced in Florida between the federal and State troops; but whether the rumor is well founded or not we are unable to learn. If any fighting has taken place it must have been at [...]

January 20, 1861, The New York Herald It is not to be disguised that the warlike preparations are now being made in the North have produced a very bad feeling in the border Slave States. In Maryland there is a sharp contest going on between the Union party and the secessionists – the latter desiring [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald The steamship Asia, from Liverpool 5th and Queenstown 6th inst., arrived at Quarantine last evening, but owing to the quantity of ice in the bay she did not come up. Our accounts from South Carolina are rather more pacific than usual, owing, as it is said, to the [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald Our Tucson Correspondence. TUCSON, Dec. 30, 1861. On the 20th instant the Apaches murdered an American named Hoyt, who was cutting wood about a mile and a half from Fort Breckinridge. Hoyt’s partner escaped, but very narrowly. The Indians took a rifle, pistol and ammunition from the murdered [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald Among some of the curious features of the secession movement is the agreement on the part of South Carolina to continue to use the postal service of the federal government for its own special accommodation, while that State is seizing the Post Office, forts, arsenals and Custom House, [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Baltimore American has the following story: One of the Baltimoreans who recently returned from Fort Sumter details an impressive incident that took place there on Major Anderson taking possession. It is known that the American flag brought away from Fort Moultrie was raised at Sumter precisely at noon on [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly According to a dispatch in the Herald, terrible suffering already exists at Charleston. The  “troops who have volunteered and presented themselves for service are camped in unhealthy locations, and, in consequence of rain, swamps, and miasma, are suffering from disease. No vessels loading, no business doing, women weeping, and men [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Baton Rouge arsenal (Louisiana) was taken possession of by the State troops on 11th. All the fortifications are now in possession of the Louisiana troops. The United States arsenal at Baton Rouge, in command of Major Haskins and two companies, refused to surrender. The arsenal was surrounded by six [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Charleston Mercury, at the close of an appeal to the Floridians to seize the defenses at Pensacola and Key West, threatens the seizure of the California treasure-ships by Southern privateers. We copy : “To our friends in Florida we would respectfully pass a word. There are two powerful strong-holds [...]

January 19, 1861, Elwood Free Press Elwood, Kansas In 1843, the people of the State of Rhode Island assembled by delegates in State Convention, framed a State Constitution, and by a majority of votes, but without the sanction of their existing state government, adopted it and attempted to put it in operation. The old state [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Suggestions have been made at Washington looking to the introduction of a proposition into Congress to buy out all the slaves in Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, in order to settle the slavery and secession question in the country north of the Potomac and west of the [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury (From the Auburn Union.) General Segoine has kindly permitted us to publish the following letter received by him on Saturday last, from Captain Abner Doubleday, who is with Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. It speaks for itself: FORT SUMTER, S.C., Jan. 6, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: It is a [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury This gentleman arrived in the city last night, by the six o’clock train on the Northeastern Railroad, and is stopping at the Charleston Hotel. He will leave for Fort Sumter at an early hour this morning. The tenor of his instructions for Major ANDERSON has not transpired, but we [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Commissioner who has been appointed by the State of Georgia to proceed to Europe, for the purpose of making commercial arrangements with European Governments for direct commerce with the Southern States, and with Savannah, especially, is now in correspondence with diplomatic individuals here, and gathering all necessary information [...]

January 18, 1861, Richmond Enquirer The hope held out of a subsequent reconstruction of the Union, has not had the desired effect upon the conservatives of the North; it has lulled them into a fatal indifference and apathy as to the present Union, in expecting a speedy re-adjustment after a short interval of separation. We [...]

January 18, 1861, Richmond Enquirer The Legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, have tendered men and money to the General Government, to coerce and subjugate Virginia, should the Convention of her sovereign people determine that secession is the only safety of the State. The action of these States, intended to be offensive and degrading, [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 1861. What another day may bring forth no one can tell, but it is not believed here that South Carolina will really proceed to hostilities. Colonel Hayne has been earnestly assured by leading Southern Senators and others that an attack upon Fort Sumter will be [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 1861. Colonel Hayne sent his communication to the President today. It is understood that since the arrival of Colonel Hayne, after a free conference with his Southern friends here, he has somewhat changed his original intention and purpose, and instead of making an unconditional demand [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald Our despatches from Washington state that Col. Hayne, the South Carolina Commissioner, after conference with the secessionists at the capital, has considerably modified his proposals to the government. He no longer demands the unconditional surrender of Fort Sumter to the authorities of South Carolina, but suggests that it [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald The ultimatum of Mr. Buchanan to the warlike requisition of South Carolina, through Colonel Hayne, for the surrender of Fort Sumter, has concentrated the public attention upon the issue thus made up of peace or war. Anticipating a bloody collision, which may summon the whole country to arms, [...]

January 18, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The most destructive feature of Northern society, political and social, is radicalism – license. The basis of all Southern organism is conservatism – order. The two systems are in direct antagonism – theoretically and practically. It is but human that men should enforce their own views, if practicable. The [...]

January 17, 1861, The New York Herald The argument is continually brought forward by that portion of the people of the Southern States who would justify the seizure of federal property by State governments, that our coast defences were erected exclusively for local defence. They say that Fort Pulaski belongs to Georgia, from the very [...]