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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 19 (search)
unimpressive in manner, and was often accused by his followers of utter recklessness as to their sufferings or perils. His death put a decided damper on the spirit whereof his later life was so striking a manifestation. In the heyday of Walker's career, and while it was exciting much admiration among the more reckless youth of our great cities, especially at the South, the Democratic National Convention, which nominated Mr. Buchanan at Cincinnati, unanimously adopted the following: May 22, 1856. 1. Resolved, That there are questions connected with the foreign policy of this country, which are inferior to no domestic question whatever. The time has come for the people of the United States to declare themselves in favor of free seas, and progressive free-trade throughout the world, and, by solemn manifestations, to place their moral influence at the side of their successful example. 2. Resolved, That our geographical and political position with reference to the other State
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xxi. The Presidential canvass of 1860. (search)
f Col. Fremont, whose previous career of adventure and of daring — his explorations, discoveries, privations, and perils — appealed, in view of his comparative youth for a Presidential candidate, with resistless fascination, to the noble young men of our country; while his silence and patience throughout the canvass, under a perfect tempest of preposterous yet annoying calumnies, had contributed to widen the circle of his admirers and friends. A most wanton and brutal personal assault May 22, 1856. on Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, by Representative Brooks of South Carolina, abetted by Representatives Keitt, of South Carolina, and Edmundson, of Virginia, doubt-less contributed also to swell the Republican vote of the following Autumn. Mr. Sumner had made an elaborate speech in the Senate on the Kansas question — a speech not without grave faults of conception and of style, but nowise obnoxious to the charge of violating the decencies of debate by unjustifiable personalities. Y<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819- (search)
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819- Legislator; born in Edgefield District, S. C., Aug. 4, 1819; was graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839: admitted to the bar in 1843; and elected to the State legislature in the following year. He served with the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment through the Mexican War, and afterwards engaged in planting. He was elected to Congress as a State-Rights Democrat in 1853, and held his seat till his death, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1857. On May 22, 1856, he made a murderous assault on Charles Sumner, who had remained in his seat in the Senate Chamber attending to some unfinished business after the adjournment of the Senate for the day. Mr. Sumner became insensible from the attack, and is said to have suffered more or less from it till his death. When the fact of the assault became known, the House of Representatives directed an investigation, and its committee reported in favor of expelling Mr. Brooks. Subsequently, however, when the resol
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ies of Kansas......Feb. 11, 1856 American National Convention at Philadelphia, Pa., on the first formal ballot nominates Millard Fillmore, of New York, for President, and Andrew J. Donelson, of Tennessee, for Vice-President......Feb. 22, 1856 Capture and sack of Lawrence, Kan., by the pro-slavery party......May 21, 1856 Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, beaten down in the Senate chamber by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, because of his speech, The crime against Kansas ......May 22, 1856 House committee recommends the expulsion of Brooks and censure of Keitt, but the resolution fails, 121 to 95 (twothirds required); Brooks and Keitt resign......June 2, 1856 Democratic National Convention meets at Cincinnati, I.......June 3, 1856 [James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, nominated for President on the seventeenth ballot, and John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, for Vice-President. Franklin Pierce and Stephen A. Douglas were also candidates for the Presidency, but were wit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
5 Law excluding from the courts negro and Indian evidence amended by adding Chinese......1855 James King, of William, editor of the San Francisco Evening bulletin, a champion of reform, is shot in the street by James Casey, editor of the Sunday times, a noted politician, May 14, 1856; dies May 20. The vigilance committee is revived May 15, and some 8,000 members are enrolled. Casey is taken from jail, May 18; tried and hanged with another man named Cora, convicted of murder......May 22, 1856 Discovery of gold mines on the Frazer River......May 1, 1858 First overland mail west leaves St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16, 1858; arrives at San Francisco......Oct. 10, 1858 Forty-two prisoners escape from State prison in open day, and 100 others following are fired upon and driven back......June 27, 1859 David C. Broderick wounded by David S. Terry in a duel Sept. 12; dies......Sept. 16, 1859 First pony express leaves Sacramento for St. Joseph, Mo.......April 4, 1860 A Japan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
ions of the United States marshal, proceeded to destroy the Free-State Hotel, the offices of the Herald of freedom and Kansas free-state, and Governor Robinson's dwelling, and to ransack and pillage the town generally— United States Senator Atchison, of Missouri, is one of the posse......May 21, 1856 George W. Brown and Gaius Jenkins, arrested on May 14, are taken before Judge Lecompte, at Lawrence, to answer to the charge of treason, bail denied, and case continued till September......May 22, 1856 Five pro-slavery men on the Pottawatomie, in Franklin county, killed by a party under Capt. John Brown......May 24, 1856 Governor Reeder, after escaping arrest by the United States marshal at Lawrence, May 7, goes to Kansas City, May 11, and is concealed at the American Hotel, where he remained until May 21, when, assuming a disguise, he secured passage on a steamer and escaped to Illinois......May 26, 1856 Battle of Black Jack, Douglas county, free-State men led by John Brown,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
cester, nominates Henry Wilson for governor and Increase Sumner for lieutenant-governor......Sept. 7, 1854 Congress consents to the cession by Massachusetts to New York of Boston Corner, the southwesterly corner of Berkshire county......Jan. 3, 1855 Sumner's speech in the United States Senate on the admission of Kansas, known as the Crime against Kansas ......May 20, 1856 Senator Sumner assaulted and beaten down by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, in the Senate chamber......May 22, 1856 Adjutant-general's report shows the State to have 147,682 men enrolled in the militia, and 5,771 are in active service......1858 Pemberton mills, at Lawrence, fall by reason of defect in building, and afterwards take fire; 115 of the operatives perish and 165 more or less injured......Jan. 10, 1860 John A. Andrews, the war governor, elected......1861 Annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society at Tremont Temple, Boston, suppressed by the mayor......Jan. 24, 1861
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Veto (search)
fencePassed over the veto, the first. Polk, 3 31Aug. 3, 1846River and Harbor. 32Aug. 8, 1846French Spoliation Claims. 33Dec. 15, 1847Internal ImprovementsPocketed. Pierce, 9 34May 3, 1854Land Grant for Indigent Insane. 35Aug. 4, 1854Internal Improvements. 36Feb. 17, 1855French Spoliation Claims. 37March 3. 1855Subsidy for Ocean Mails. 38May 19, 1856Internal Improvements, MississippiPassed over veto. 39May 19, 1856Internal Improvements, St. Clair Flats, Mich.Passed over veto. 40May 22, 1856Internal Improvements, St. Mary's River, Mich.Passed over veto. 41Aug. 11, 1856Internal Improvements, Des Moines River, Mich.Passed over veto. 42Aug. 14, 1856Internal Improvements, Patapsco River, MdPassed over veto. Buchanan,7 43Jan. 7, 1859Overland MailsPocketed. 44Feb. 24, 1859Land Grants for Agricultural Colleges. 45Feb. 1, 1860Internal Improvements, St. Clair Flats, Mich.Pocketed. 46Feb. 6, 1860Internal Improvements, Mississippi RiverPocketed. 47Apr. 17, 1860Relief of A. Edwar
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General ., Chapter I (search)
scing joy. Twenty years ago witnessed a different condition of affairs. The political horizon was dark and obscured. The low mutterings of the storm that was soon to sweep over our country, and to deluge our fair land with fratricidal blood, were distinctly heard. Sectional differences were developing into widespread dissensions. Cherished institutions were threatened with dissolution, and political antagonism had aroused a contented people into a frenzy of hate. On the twenty-second of May, 1856, an American Senator was assaulted in the Senate-house by a political opponent for daring to give utterance to opinions that were hostile to the slave-holding interests of the South. Later in the same year a Republican candidate, with professed anti-slavery views, was nominated for the presidency, and although defeated, gave evidence of such political strength that Southern leaders became alarmed. At this time the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas was a prominent leader of the Democratic
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 16: Fremont.—1856. (search)
n Mr. Garrison's hope, the first gun at Lexington of the new Revolution. Lib. 26.23. The victory of the Slave Power in the Lib. 26.178. election of James Buchanan—a typical Northern doughface Lib. 26.125. —to the Presidency in November, over John C. Fremont, with three parties in the field and only one issue, was in fact the Bunker Hill of that Revolution. Between these events, of the first political importance, occurred the beating of Charles Sumner in his seat in the Senate Chamber May 22, 1856; Lib. 26.87. of the United States by the nephew of one of his colleagues, a Representative from South Carolina, Preston S. Brooks. The speech which drew down upon the Massachusetts Senator this murderous assault, was entitled The Crime against Kansas; and the assault itself was merely a part of that crime. Jefferson Davis, Pierce's Secretary of War, wielding all the power of the Lib. 26:[30], [151]. Administration in support of the pro-slavery invaders of Kansas, publicly approved Broo
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