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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. (search)
finally adopted by the Senate, March 26, 1860. by a strict party vote, twenty-nine supporters of the Administration voting in the affirmative, and eighteen of the opposition voting in the negative. During the debate, Davis took the high State Supremacy ground, that the militia of the States were not a part of the militia of the United States. The bill was smothered in the House of Representatives. The conspirators were not to be foiled. By a stretch of authority given in the law of March 3, 1825, authorizing the Secretary of War to sell arms, ammunition, and other military stores, which should be found unsuitable for the public service, Floyd sold to States and individuals over thirty-one thou. sand muskets, altered from flint to percussion, for two dollars and fifty cents each. The Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, in their report on this subject, on the 18th of February, 1861, said that, in their judgment, it would require a very liberal constr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
ve away, for they had begun to enjoy the arts and comforts of civilization. They passed a law forbidding the sale of any of their lands, on pain of death. After the breaking up of the general council, a few of the chiefs violated this law by negotiating with the United States commissioners. By these chiefs, who were only a fraction of the leaders of the tribes, all the lands of the Creeks in Georgia were ceded to the United States. The treaty was ratified by the United States Senate, March 3, 1825. When information of these proceedings reached the Creeks, a secret council determined not to accept the treaty and to slay McIntosh, the chief of the party who had assented to it. He and another chief were shot, April 30. A new question now arose. Governor Troup contended that upon the ratification of the treaty the fee simple of the lands vested in Georgia. He took measures for a survey of the lands, under the authority of the legislature of Georgia, and to distribute them among
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
821 Sixteenth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1821 ninth administration—Democraticrepublican, March 5, 1821, to March 3, 1825. James Monroe, Virginia, President. Daniel D. Tompkins, New York, Vice-President. President appoints Gen. An $150,000 to extend the Cumberland road from Canton, on the Ohio, opposite Wheeling, to Zanesville, O., approved......March 3, 1825 An act of Congress for strengthening the laws of the United States approved......March 3, 1825 Eighteenth CongressMarch 3, 1825 Eighteenth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1825 tenth administration—Democraticrepublican (coalition), March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829. John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, President. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, Vice-President. Corner-stone of Bunker Hill March 3, 1825 tenth administration—Democraticrepublican (coalition), March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829. John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, President. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, Vice-President. Corner-stone of Bunker Hill monument laid......June 17, 1825 [Lafayette was present, and Daniel Webster delivered the oration.] Lafayette leaves Washington for France in the new frigate Brandywine, furnished him by the government......Sept. 7, 1825 Mordecai M. Noah se<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
ut the following resolution finally passed that body: That, in reply to several messages of the President, with regard to a treaty with Mexico, the Senate express the opinion that it is not advisable to negotiate a treaty that will require the United States to assume any portion of the principal or interest of the debt of Mexico, or that will require the concurrence of the European powers. Xxviii. Another infamous law had stood upon the statute books of the United States, from March 3, 1825, for more than a third of a century. It was as follows: That no other than a free white person shall be employed in conveying the mail, and any contractor who shall employ, or permit any other than a free white person to carry, the mail, shall for every such offence, incur a penalty of twenty dollars. This bill was to blacken the statute book no longer. On the 18th of March, 1862, Mr. Sumner asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the Senate to introduce a bill to remove a
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxviii. (search)
Xxviii. Another infamous law had stood upon the statute books of the United States, from March 3, 1825, for more than a third of a century. It was as follows: That no other than a free white person shall be employed in conveying the mail, and any contractor who shall employ, or permit any other than a free white person to carry, the mail, shall for every such offence, incur a penalty of twenty dollars. This bill was to blacken the statute book no longer. On the 18th of March, 1862, Mr. Sumner asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the Senate to introduce a bill to remove all disqualifications of color, in carrying the mails. It was reported back on the 27th of the month, by Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, Chairman of the Committee on Post-offices, without amendment, and passed. But in the House, it was laid on the table, by a large majority, on motion of Mr. Colfax. It was renewed, however, by Mr. Sumner, in the next Congress, and became a law. The original of the
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
arge number of persons including the General himself, outside either of the War Department, the Springfield armory, or the Southern arsenals. In truth, there was not then the least motive for concealment, even had this been possible. The General pronounces these muskets and rifles to have been of an extra quality. It may, therefore, be proper to state from the testimony what was their true character. In 1857 proceedings had been instituted by the War Department, under the act of 3d March, 1825, to authorize the sale of unserviceable ordnance, arm, and military stores. 4 stat. at Large, 127. The inspecting officers under the act condemned 190,000 of the old muskets, as unsuitable for the public service, and recommended that they be sold. In the spring of 1859, 50,000 of them were offered at public sale. The bids received, says Colonel Craig, were very unsatisfactory, ranging from 10 1/2 cents to $2.00, except one bid for a small lot for $3.50. In sub. hitting them to the
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
ition of Gen. Scott, were about to be sent so late as March from the loyal States into those over which Jefferson Davis had then for some time presided. Had Gen. Scott reflected for a moment he could not have fallen into this blunder. It is quite man he was "without a printed document and my (his) own official papers." 3. The Government had on hand, in the year 1859, about 500,000 old muskets, which had been condemned "as unsuitable for public service," under the act of the 3d of March, 1825. They were of such a character that, although offered both at public and private sale at $2.50 each, purchasers could not be obtained at that rate, except for a comparatively small number. On the 30th of November 1859, Secretary Floyd ordered about one fifth of the whole number (105,000) to be sent from the Springfield armory where they had been accumulated, to five Southern arsenals, "in proportion to their respective means of proper storage." This order carried into effect by the