From The New-York Times February 19, 1861: BANGOR, Me., Monday, Feb. 18. Vice-President HAMLIN and lady left here this morning on route for Washington. He will arrive at Boston this evening, and leave for the West to-morrow morning. He was escorted from Hampden to our city by a large-number of his fellow-townsmen, and was received [...]
CINCINNATI, Tuesday, Feb. 12. The train arrived at the appointed time at the foot of Fifth-street, which was literally blocked with people. The locomotive was once compelled to stop. The crowd was so great it was impossible to get out of the way at the depot, and it was found necessary to bring the military [...]
The New York Times, January 21, 1861 GEORGIA DECLARED OUT OF THE UNION.; PASSAGE OF THE SECESSION ORDINANCE BY THE STATE CONVENTION MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Saturday, Jan. 19. The State Convention adopted the secession ordinance at 2 o’clock this afternoon, by Yeas, 208; Nays, 89. It is as follows: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between [...]
New York Tribune, November 19, 1860 Bullying the Free States. Abraham Lincoln has been designated for next President of this Republic by the popular vote of nearly every Free State, and the ruling politicians of the Slave States are not pleased with the selection. We can fancy their feelings, as we felt much the same [...]
The New York Times, November 6, 1860 It is universally conceded that the vote of New-York to-day decides the Presidential question. Every other Northern State is surrendered to LINCOLN. The great West will pronounce for him by enormous majorities. No one has a moment’s doubt about any New England State, and the vote of last [...]
The whole disturbance which prevails through the country has been caused by the efforts of the South to increase Slavery. The New York Times, November 5, 1860 Senator SEWARD, in his speech on Friday night, declared the whole aim and duty of the Republican Party to be to leave Slavery just where it is. They [...]
The New York Times, November 5, 1860 Unqualified for voting at all. A warrant was issued yesterday by Justice QUACKENBUSH for the arrest of GEORGE K. COOKE, the Democratic member of the Board of Registry for the Eighth District of the Fifteenth Ward, on a charge of having violated the Registry law. An affidavit has [...]
The New York Times, November 2, 1860 Correspondence of the Louisville Democrat. LAMAR Co., Texas, Sept., 1860. Seeing that the many Rumors and reports which were circulated through our State a few months since, as to Abolition emissaries, insurrections, etc., are being published and accredited by many of the papers in the older States, I [...]
The New York Times, October 24, 2020 Conditions of Affairs at the Navy-Yards. Matters at the different Navy-Yards, notwithstanding the number of vessels ordered for sea, are comparatively dull. This arises from the small appropriations made by Congress for purely yard work. At New-York, (the sum granted for which was $20,000,) there is hardly anything [...]
The New York Times, September 3, 1860 Correspondence Old Point Comfort, (Va.) Wednesday, Aug. 29. The curiosity of the Artillery officers, and of the guests at Old Point was gratified yesterday by the first firing of the great “Floyd” Gun of which I have before spoken. The first shell weighing 360 pounds was thrown fifteen [...]
The New York Times, July 25, 1860 As long as there was a reasonable chance that the one section or other of the Democratic Party would be able to place its candidate in the White House, or that an arrangement could be effected for concerted or harmonious action at the polls, Disunion was never named [...]
The New York Times, July 21, 1860 Shameful Outrage. Three negroes living near Clifton, Iroquois County, Illinois, were kidnapped on the 2d. The local papers give the following account of the transaction. On Sunday the Kidnappers met at the house of JOHN O’NEAL, about three-fourths of a mile west of Clifton, procured a team, and [...]
The New York Times, July 19, 1860 (The New-Orleans papers…) contained a dispatch, three days since, from our city, to the effect that 103 negroes had been safely delivered, per schooner, to persons in this vicinity. It’s a true bill, we hear. The sons of Afric were brought here, delivered to a steamboat, and are [...]
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. Washington, Wednesday, July 16. Another Attack on the Pawnee Indians Agent GILLIS, of the Pawnee tribe of Indians, who lately reported the attack upon that tribe by the Cheyennes, Sioux and other bands, as noticed in the TIMES, again reports, under date of July 5, that the Pawnees started [...]
The New York Times, July 11, 1860 Mr. BRECKINRIDGE accepts the nomination of the Administration-Secessionists “from a sense of public duty,” and, as he thinks, “uninfluenced in any degree by the allurements of ambition.” We presume the country will give him full credit for disinterestedness. Indeed it would be difficult to conceive how any ambitious [...]
The New York Times, July 6, 1860 Carried Off—A letter from Clifton, Ill., dated July 2, says: “JAMES, WILLIAM and Mr. KINGMAN’s JOHN were taken last evening by the slave hunters. They were all at SELLER’s, (a store in Clifton,) enticed there by an Ashkum man, who was bribed by the kidnappers from the South. [...]
The New York Times, July 6, 1860 Washington, Thursday, July 5 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received important intelligence this morning from Nebraska Territory. Agent GILLIS, under date of June 22, writes that 200 or more Cheyenne. Arrappahoe and Sioux Indians had just attacked a Pawnee village in sight of the agency and killed several [...]
The New York Times, June 30, 1860 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, May 26, 1860. His Excellency, W. DENISON, Governor of the State of Ohio: SIR: There was issued from this Department on the 17th inst., a requisition demanding of your Excellency, as fugitives from justice from this State, STEPHEN G. KENNEDY and MARY ANN C. [...]
The New York Times, June 26, 1860 The Presidential canvass has at last fairly opened. The several political parties have taken their ground, all the candidates are in the field, and it is not difficult to foresee the result. The Republican ticket is morally certain to be elected. Strong in the public sentiment of the [...]
The New York Times, June 26, 1860 ST. LOUIS, Monday, June 25. The Seceders are holding a grand mass meeting here to-night, to ratify the nomination at Baltimore of BRECKINRIDE and LANE. THe Bulletin office is brilliantly lighted up, and covered with flags, banners and transparencies. A salute of one hundred and five guns is [...]
Two Tickets Nominated. Nomination of Douglas and Fitzpatrick by the Regulars. Breckinridge and Lane the Candidates of the Seceders. What is Thought of the Nominations. The New York Times, June 25, 1860 Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. Baltimore, Sunday, June, 24. We have assurances from persons who ought to know that both BRECKINRIDGE and [...]
The Democratic Candidates. The New York Times, June 25, 1860 The Baltimore Convention has closed its labors. It met to nominate a Presidential candidate, and to adopt a platform; it has ended by giving the party two of each. Its ostensible object was to harmonize the party, to compromise points of difference, to reconcile sectional [...]
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The New York Times, June 19, 1860 Senator MASON has just wound up the Harper’s Ferry affair by presenting a majority report which reveals nothing, and by getting himself discharged from the manufacture of a bill to protect States from invasion. THADDEUS HYATT has also, at last, been released from his dungeon, and the country [...]
The New York Times, June 19, 1860 HUNTSVILLE, June 13, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: I see that Mr. SUMNER, in his late speech, thought proper to pay his respects to me. He calls me a slave owner, and quotes a part of my speech in reply to Mr. RHETT, to prove that violent and bloody [...]