–The State Convention of Georgia has adopted the secession ordinance by a vote of two hundred and eight against eighty-nine. –(Doc. 22.) A motion to postpone the operation of the ordinance until the 3d of March was lost by about thirty majority. Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson are among those who voted against [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 WE publish on page 33, from a photograph sent us from Charleston, South Carolina, a portrait of Judge Magrath, late Judge of the United States District Court at Charleston. Judge Magrath is a lawyer of high standing at the South Carolina bar, and enjoys the respect of the public. He [...]

H. R Washington Jany 19. 1861 My dear wife Your letter of the 12th and 13th and 14th was duly received and has caused us great anxiety on account of the illness of our dear little daughter. We shall be trembling with fear for every hour that hangs over the uncertainty of her illness. I [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 EW publish herewith a portrait of Governor Pickens, the newly-elected Governor of the State of South Carolina. Governor Pickens comes of good revolutionary stock. His grandfather, General Pickens, commanded the American forces at the Battle of the Cowpens. His father, Colonel Pickens, held a military command in the war of [...]

MOTTLE, ALA., January 19, 1861. SIR: I have to state that Fort Gaines was formally taken possession of in name of the State of Alabama yesterday. I was about to send all the hands off on a steamer chartered for the purpose; some provisions, &c., were also to [be] taken to Mobile and sold. Colonel [...]

WASHINGTON, January 19, 1861. Gov. A. B. MOORE, Montgomery, Ala.: Telegraph not to attack Fort Pickens. Florida Senators and friends think it unwise. C. C. CLAY, JR. BEN. FITZPATRICK.

January 19, 1861 Following two days of debate and a day of hammering out the wording of the secession document, Georgia votes to leave the Union. Virginia calls for a peace conference Tennessee votes to hold a secessionist election Georgia secedes from the Union. Image: One of the Ten Flank Casemate Batteries at Fort Pickens, [...]

Slave Sale, Charleston, South Carolina, From a Sketch by Eyre Crowe The Illustrated London News, November 29, 1856 Hand-tinted off-print, click on image for a larger version A black and white version is at The British Museum: “A slave auction taking place in a street, the purchasers gathered before the platform including a black gentleman [...]

Richardson’ss New Map of the State of Texas 1861 Richardson’s New Map Of The State Of Texas Including Part of Mexico Compiled From Government Surveys And Other Authentic Documents. Published By Charles Desilver No. 714 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Engraved Expressly For The Texas Almanac. Corrected By H. Wickland. 1861. Entered … 1861 by Charles Desilver [...]

WASHINGTON, January 18, 1861. His Excellency Governor PERRY, Tallahassee, Fla: We think no assault should be made. The possession of the fort is not worth one drop of blood to us. Measures pending unite us in this opinion. Bloodshed now may be fatal to our cause. JNO. SLIDELL. J. P. BENJAMIN. A. IVERSON. JNO. HEMPHILL. [...]

FRIDAY 18 The discussions in Congress are now very pointed and interesting. An attack upon Fort Sumpter is expected since the Prest flatly refuses to Treat with Col Hayne the last Comr from S.C. for its peacable surrender. If the attack is made it will be no holiday job for the “fireeaters.” The weather today [...]

January 18, 1861, Richmond Enquirer The hope held out of a subsequent reconstruction of the Union, has not had the desired effect upon the conservatives of the North; it has lulled them into a fatal indifference and apathy as to the present Union, in expecting a speedy re-adjustment after a short interval of separation. We [...]

January 18, 1861, Richmond Enquirer The Legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, have tendered men and money to the General Government, to coerce and subjugate Virginia, should the Convention of her sovereign people determine that secession is the only safety of the State. The action of these States, intended to be offensive and degrading, [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 1861. What another day may bring forth no one can tell, but it is not believed here that South Carolina will really proceed to hostilities. Colonel Hayne has been earnestly assured by leading Southern Senators and others that an attack upon Fort Sumter will be [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 1861. Colonel Hayne sent his communication to the President today. It is understood that since the arrival of Colonel Hayne, after a free conference with his Southern friends here, he has somewhat changed his original intention and purpose, and instead of making an unconditional demand [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald Our despatches from Washington state that Col. Hayne, the South Carolina Commissioner, after conference with the secessionists at the capital, has considerably modified his proposals to the government. He no longer demands the unconditional surrender of Fort Sumter to the authorities of South Carolina, but suggests that it [...]

January 18, 1861, The New York Herald The ultimatum of Mr. Buchanan to the warlike requisition of South Carolina, through Colonel Hayne, for the surrender of Fort Sumter, has concentrated the public attention upon the issue thus made up of peace or war. Anticipating a bloody collision, which may summon the whole country to arms, [...]

January 18, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The most destructive feature of Northern society, political and social, is radicalism – license. The basis of all Southern organism is conservatism – order. The two systems are in direct antagonism – theoretically and practically. It is but human that men should enforce their own views, if practicable. The [...]

–In the Massachusetts State Legislature to-day, a series of resolutions was passed by a unanimous vote, tendering to the President of the United States such aid in men and money as he may request, to maintain the authority of the general Government. The preamble to the resolution declares that the State of South Carolina, in [...]

HEADQUARTERS FORT JEFFERSON, TORTUGAS, January 18, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to report that I arrived at Fort Jefferson today with my command; garrisoned and assumed command of the post, in accordance with the instructions of the General-in-Chief, dated Washington, January 5, 1861. Strength: four commissioned officers and sixty-two enlisted men, Bvt. Maj. L. [...]

THURSDAY 17 There has been no startling News today, but the right of Secession is contested by all northern men who with the president consider it Revolution. I have not hesitated to call it Treason. I was at Willards this evening. People generaly are less excited than they were a week ago, and since the [...]

January 17, 1861, The New York Herald The argument is continually brought forward by that portion of the people of the Southern States who would justify the seizure of federal property by State governments, that our coast defences were erected exclusively for local defence. They say that Fort Pulaski belongs to Georgia, from the very [...]

January 17, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 1861. The President adheres to his position in regard to the forts in Charleston harbor, and emphatically refuses to surrender Fort Sumter, and will so inform Col. Hayne, the special Commissioner from South Carolina, who came here to demand its unconditional surrender. Lieut. Talbot, one [...]

January 17, 1861, The New York Herald The news from Washington this morning is of the highest importance. Col. Hayne, the Commissioner from South Carolina, was informed by the President on Tuesday that any communication he had to make must be made in writing. Col. Hayne thereupon withdrew, in order to prepare his propositions, but [...]