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The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 20 | 4 | Browse | Search |
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , January (search)
Jan. 15.
Major-General Sandford tendered the whole of the First Division New York State Militia to the Commander-in-Chief, to be ready for service in an hour's notice.
Colonel Hayne, a Commissioner of South Carolina to Washington, was received by the President, and demanded the withdrawal of the garrison of Fort Sumter.
He was requested to submit a written demand.
The United States Coast Survey schooner Dana, was seized by the Florida State authorities.--The World.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , January (search)
Jan. 31.
The State of South Carolina, by her attorney-general, I. W. Hayne, offered to buy Fort Sumter, and declared that, if not permitted to purchase, she would seize the fort by force of arms.
The United States, in reply, asserted political rights superior to the proprietary right, and not subject to the right of eminent domain. --Times, Feb. 9.
The United States branch mint, and the custom-house at New Orleans, seized by the State authorities.
In the mint were government funds to the amount of $389,000, and in the sub-treasury, $122,000--(Doc. 29.)--Louisville Journal, Feb. 2.
From Charleston. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, Jan. 30, 1861.
You need not rely at all upon any of the thousand and one rumors by telegraph and letters sent from this place concerning political affairs and complications of South Carolina.
They are all guess work and vague reports.
No one in this city, outside of the Governor and his Cabinet, knows what are the instructions to Col. Hayne, or whether he is instructed to demand Fort Sumter or not; and I now write hastily to say, nothing that has been or may be said, unless it be over the Governor's signature, can be relied on at all. All that I have said to you on the subject, has been the general impression of well-informed citizens and my own, and we know actually nothing, and in these times of excitement, it is best, I think, not to add unnecessary alarm and uneasiness.
I have two friends here, gentlemen heretofore antipodes in their belief as to the ultimate direction things would take, who now
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Fort Sumter correspondence. (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Old Fraud Revived. (search)
From Charleston.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, Feb. 4, 1861.
Certainly we begin to breathe easier.
We bet that the madness that has ruled the hour at Washington, has reached its culminating joint.
Nothing has transpired as to Colonel Hayne's finale; nor is there anything known, except that he has demanded the unconditional at surrender of Fort Sumter, of the President, and that he has communicated the same to Congress.
The impression prevails here, in well-in-formed circles, that the first act of the Southern Congress at Montgomery will be to demand all the forts and arsenals situated in the molding States, and that the demand will be granting.
I have seen no one who supposes for a moment that anything will be effected by the Convention now being held in Washington, and that the whole thing will break up with a worse understanding than at present.
The army of this State continues to increase, and the severest training continues.
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