TUESDAY 29 There are indications today that the Republicans are “coming down” from the Chicago Platform and that something like the Crittenden proposition will be accepted by them. Secession seems to be now a fixed fact and we have to look Disunion in the face, while a subversion of the Government is threatened. This City [...]
The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to [...]
–The United States revenue cutter Robert McClelland, Captain Breshwood (a Virginian), was surrendered at New Orleans to the State of Louisiana.–Times, Feb. 8. –Secretary Dix’s dispatch to Hemphill Jones, to “shoot on the spot” any one who attempts to “haul down the American flag” caused great enthusiasm.–(Doc. 28.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, January 29, 1861. Lieut. ADAM J. SLEMMER, First Regiment Artillery, U. S. Army, Commanding Fort Pickens : SIR: The dispatch of which the inclosed is a copy was transmitted today, and the hope is indulged that it will be received before the arrival of the Brooklyn. Lieutenant Saunders goes as the bearer of [...]
Fort SUMTER, S.C., January 29, 1861. (Received A. G. O., February 1.) Col. S. COOPER, Adjutant-General U.S. Army: COLONEL: The South Carolinians are at work in large force on Cummings Point, apparently framing heavy timbers, for what purpose I am unable yet to state. They succeeded this morning, favored by a very high tide, in [...]
January 29, 1861, The New York Herald It is now stated that the mission of the war steamer Brooklyn to Pensacola is one of peace. She has been sent out to intercept vessels of the Gulf squadron that have been ordered to Pensacola to prevent them from going there, and thus obviate difficulty and perhaps [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In rainy weather we have frequent complaints that the MERCURY is received in a mutilated condition. This is owing to the fact that so few residences are provided with boxes to receive the paper and protect it from the weather. The carriers have to thrown it into piazzas, gardens, [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Major William H. Chase, formerly of the United States Corps of Engineers, is the leader of the State troops at Pensacola, Florida. He was formerly a resident of Massachusetts, and received the appointment of cadet from that State to the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated March [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Legislature last night again altered the design of the State flag. It now consists of a blue field, with a white palmetto tree in the middle, upright. The white crescent in the upper flag staff corner remains as before, the horns pointing upward. This may be regarded as [...]
The Presidents reply to Senator Slidell’s query on Major Beauregard being relieved of command at West Point. Washington, January 29, 1861. My Dear Sir,–With every sentiment of personal friendship and regard, I am obliged to say, in answer to your note of Sunday, that I have full confidence in the Secretary of War, and his [...]
January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury An officer in the army or navy of the United States is a citizen of a State, appointed by the general agent of all the States (the Government of the United States) to an office, to assist in carrying on this agency. He is not a citizen of the [...]
January 29, 1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state — without slavery.