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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
he hereby is, authorized to appoint seven persons as commissioners, to proceed to Washington to confer with the General Government, or with the separate States, or with any association of delegates from such States, and to report their doings to the legislature at its present session. The resolution expressly declared that the acts of the commission should at all times be under the control and subject to the approval or rejection of the legislature. This commission reported on the 25th of March that it had finished its work, the convention not having amounted to anything except to convince the unthinking that the whole trouble would end in smoke. There was no emeute or interference with Lincoln's trip to Washington and his inauguration, except that he was obliged to smuggle himself through in the night-time to escape assassination, travelling alone at an unusual hour, so that his passage through Baltimore was not expected or known. As the South was not yet ready to march on W