February 15, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, February 12, 1861. At a single bound, we have leaped from thrilling regions of thick ribbed ice into the heart of the tropics. The heat is almost intolerable. Great masses of thick clouds are floating overhead; the streets and avenues are alive with dashing vehicles and well dressed [...]

February 15, 1861; The New York Herald Our Washington Correspondence. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1861. The first intimation the public received that Lieutenant General Winfield Scott meditated the occupation of the federal capital by federal troops was through a telegraphic despatch sent by the General from the city of Washington to Fort Leavenworth some two months [...]

February 15, 1861; The New York Herald On Wednesday last the New York police, notwithstanding their being compelled to surrender the greater portion of the muskets which they seized belonging to the State of Georgia, committed another act of depredation against the rights of Southern citizens. They seized a quantity of cartridges about being shipped [...]

February 15, 1861; The New York Herald The committee of the Peace Convention to whom was entrusted the task of devising an adjustment of the troubles of the nation were busy at their work yesterday. Everything has, it is reported, been arranged, on the basis of Mr. Guthrie’s proposition, excepting the territorial question. On this [...]

Resolved by the Confederate States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the sense of this Congress that immediate steps should be taken to obtain possession of Forts Sumter and Pickens, by the authority of this Government, either by negotiations or force, as early as practicable, and that the President is hereby authorized to [...]

February 15, 1861; Richmond Enquirer Military balls are unquestionably the most attractive of all festivals. No opera, nor drama, nor civic ball, nor anything else that we know in the line of public entertainment, can produce such flutter among hoops or in the dear little hearts that lie hidden behind boquets and cotton, as those [...]

February 14, 1861; The Charleston Mercury In spite of the constant excitements to which it has been subjected during the past two months, the sensibility of Washington is not yet extinct. Gov. BROWN’S bold reprisals at Savannah, and the seizure of the Arsenal at Little Rock, turned up the depths on Saturday. The commotion soon [...]

February 14, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 1861. Owing to the apprehensions of a conspiracy of purpose in seizing the public buildings they have been privately guarded, though not in large force, some three weeks past; and, in addition to other fears, the blowing up of the Capitol was regarded as an [...]

February 14, 1861; The New York Herald The counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President took place yesterday at Washington, when Abraham Lincoln was declared President and Hannibal Hamlin Vice President of the United States for four years from the 4th of March next. The following is the vote: – Lincoln and [...]

February 14, 1861; The New York Herald Last evening a large torchlight procession marched to the Burnet House and called out Mr. Lincoln, who briefly returned his thanks for the honor done him. A number of citizens afterwards had the pleasure of shaking Mr. Lincoln’s hand. It was not until after midnight that the corridors [...]

February 14, 1861; The New York Herald The Joint Committee of the Common Council, specially appointed to make arrangements for extending the hospitalities of the city to Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States elect, on his arrival here, held their first meeting yesterday afternoon. Alderman Cornell presided, and Aldermen Barry and Smith, and [...]

February 14, 1861; The New York Herald ALBANY, Feb. 13, 1861. The committee to entertain the President elect is yet in hot water. Gov. Morgan insists that he shall have his own way, and that Lincoln shall dine at his house with a select party. He informed one of the committee that the dinner had [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald The Southern Congress at Montgomery, Alabama, yesterday in secret session adopted a resolution declaring that the new government takes under its charge the questions and difficulties existing between the States of the confederacy and the United States, relative to the forts, arsenals and other public establishments. We shall, [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 12, 1861. Last night, previous to Mr. Lincoln’s departure from the Bates House, he was again introduced by the Hon. Sol Meredith. Mr. Lincoln said he had no speech to make. If he made speeches whenever his friends desired, he would not be able to reach [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald In the course of his very remarkable speech at Springfield, the President elect made an allusion to the pills of the homeopathists’ as being too large for the opponents of coercion to swallow. The comparison is more after the manner of Hon. Massa Greeley than that of the [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald The bells of St. Germain d’Auxerrois have at length tolled forth the signal for massacre and bloodshed by the incoming administration. The speech of Mr. Lincoln, at Indianapolis, is the first authoritative proclamation of his intentions in the present crisis. His words are pregnant with meaning, and deserve [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald That the Northern States at the present moment are on the eve of a calamitous commercial crisis, which threatens to plunge us into disorder, and perhaps ruin, no one with any foresight can fail to see. Apart from the evils resulting from the political difficulties now shaking the [...]

February 13, 1861; The New York Herald ALBANY, Feb 12, 1861. The joint committee to entertain the President elect held a meeting this afternoon in the Executive chamber. Governor Morgan appeared before them, and insisted that he should be his guest whilst here, the State to pay the bills, and that the members and all [...]

February 13, 1861; The Charleston Mercury South Carolina is but not forgotten. Abolitionists of the North and traitors from the South do not permit her name and fame to pass away from the memory of men. She is the chosen theme of their bitterest revilings. But, albeit she is without a representative in either House, [...]

February 13, 1861; The Charleston Mercury MONTGOMERY, February 10, 1861. The Provisional Constitution being disposed of, I understand that yesterday a committee was raised, of two from each State, to frame and report a Permanent Constitution for the Confederacy. The members of this committee from your State, I learn, are Mr. RHETT and Mr. CHESNUT. [...]

February 12, 1861; The New York Herald The President elect left Springfield, Illinois, yesterday morning, en route for the White House at Washington, via Buffalo, Albany and New York. He will reach this city, according to the published programme… on Tuesday, the 19th instant. His journey is divided into easy stages, and all the arrangements [...]

February 12, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Great efforts are making by the Republican press and by men in and out of Congress, to detach, by every sort of trick, the Border Southern States from union or sympathy with the other Southern States. They promise them, if they will only renounce the seceding States, any amount [...]

February 12, 1861; The New York Herald The President elect and suite left Springfield, Illinois, at half past seven o’ yesterday morning, en route for the White House. Mr. Lincoln made a farewell address to his neighbors just before the train started, which so affected both himself and his hearers that tears were copiously shed. [...]

February 12, 1861; The Charleston Mercury BALTIMORE, February 6. 1861. The crisis in Maryland is rapidly approaching. Last evening delegates were elected in all the wards to attend a City Convention, for the purpose of selecting delegates to represent the city in a State Convention to consider the present state of affairs, to meet on [...]