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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
me hostile parties. Finally, unable to procure any news, in consequence of the hostility of the inhabitants, and finding the water in White River constantly falling, the expedition of which they formed a part again descended the river as far as Clarendon. It was precisely toward this point that Curtis was marching. Chance thus seemed to facilitate the junction of the two expeditions, but Curtis' march was retarded by the difficulties of the ground; and when he reached Clarendon on the 9th of July, he was informed that the flotilla had left twenty-four hours before. After so long and fatiguing a march, this was a cruel disappointment; the junction he had been on the point of effecting was thenceforth impossible. In coming so far to find nothing but a deserted, arid shore, he had lost, without any compensation, all the advantages of the position he had occupied either at Pea Ridge in the west, or at Batesville in the centre of the State. Meanwhile, he could neither retrace his st
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
restored at a later day. The question thus stated could not fail to provoke warm discussions on the part of the press and at political meetings in the North. Congress took up the subject soon after the beginning of its session, and on the 9th of July the House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring that in its opinion it was not the duty of soldiers to capture and restore fugitive slaves. Meanwhile, the number of these fugitives was daily on the increase; they assembled in thee occasion of tempestuous debates, for it raised an impassable barrier around the slave States, and closed the door against every new compromise. This law was finally passed, and the President approved it on the 19th of June. Finally, on the 9th of July, the equality of the blacks with the whites in the District of Columbia was partially established by the admission of the former to testify before the courts on the same conditions as the latter. Pending the discussion of these laws, publi