Burlington, N. Jersey March 28, 1861 Sir, In despair of immediate action in Maryland, my native state, and in Virginia, the birthplace of my wife (she was Miss Custis) I am solicitous to enter the civil service of the Confederate States. And in this behalf I beg to enclose herewith a note from the Hon. [...]
Bank of the Republic, New York, March 28th, 1861. Dr. Sir: If Cotton is King, the King must command peace; for peace is essential to your prosperity. And Cotton is King—he commands not only all, all the mills and manufactures of Old and New England, France and Europe, but the allegiance of your own citizens, [...]
Washington, March 26, 1861. My Dear Sir: Yours of the 23rd did not reach me until last night. More than ever I cherish old friends, those whom I knew and esteemed in my early years. Of that number, now unhappily rapidly diminishing, I include yourself. I wish I could see you before I cross the [...]
Macon, Ga., 26 March, 1861. My Dear Mr. Buchanan, I intended to address you this letter on the 5th of March, but at that time I was so much engaged at Montgomery that I could not carry out my purpose. In fact I have been constantly employed since my return to Georgia and have not [...]
New York, March 25th, 1861. My Dear Sir: The differences between the rates of the tariffs North and South are creating great discontent already at the North, and they will in the North have to call an extra Congress to repeal their Morrill tariff. This will be the consequence; and if not, a considerable part [...]
A. M. Evans to Howell Cobb. [Gillsville] , Hall Co[unty], Ga., March 20, 1861. Dear Sir: Nothing ever has bin more gratifying to me than the movement of the Southern Confederacy so fare as it has Went, thare seems to be still some among us disposed to act with The Black Republican party. It is [...]
Thomas R. R. Cobb to Howell. Cobb. Savannah [Ga.], Tuesday Mar. 19, 1861. Dear Brother, Your letter together with three from my wife and some forty others have been lying in the P. O. here for several days while I was in blissful ignorance. I am perfectly willing to labor for the Confederate States. I [...]
From Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, March 15, 1861 The President of the United States has required my opinion in writing, upon the following question: “Assuming it to be possible to now provision Fort Sumter, under all the circumstances, is it wise to attempt it?” This is not a question of lawful right nor physical [...]
From Intelligence in the Civil War, A publication of the Central Intelligence Agency On February 11, 1861, Abraham Lincoln said his farewell to the people of his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, and boarded a train that would take him to Washington for his inauguration on March 4. As he started out, rumors of assassination plots [...]
Bank of the Republic, New York, March 9, 1861. My Dear Sir: I have yours 5th inst. I had a letter from Mr. Memminger on the subject of the Loan[i] but I could give him no encouragement here at present. You know that all loans are founded on or have reference to London. At this [...]
E. B. Hart to Howell Cobb. (Private.) Custom House, New York, Surveyor’s Office, 27 and 29 Pine St., March 7, 1861. My Dear Govr., I have desired greatly to write you for some time; but in the bustle of matters financial and political I have not been able to get a quiet moment until now. [...]
Edenton [N. C], Mar. 6/61. Dear Sir: Acquainted with no one in the Capital of the South ern] R[epublic], and my State unfortunately having no representative there, I beg you to furnish me with [a] little information if the numerous demands upon your time will permit. I am satisfied your ardent nature induces you to [...]
John A. Cobb to Howell Cobb. E. Macon [Ga.], March 4th, 1861. Dear Father, … A package came by express today from Washington containing two presents from Col. Colt (the revolver man) one [for] Mother and one for you. Yours is a large horseman’s pistol (revolver) in a fine case. Mother’s is a book. On [...]
Richmond, Va., Feb. 28th, 1861. Dear Governor, I was dispatched from Montgomery under orders from the President so suddenly that I had not the opportunity of calling on my friends, yourself among the number, as I intended to do; so you must excuse me for my seeming remissness. As I shall not return for some [...]
This ruse by Lincoln Washington [D. C], Feby. 25th, ’61. My Dear Sir: I enclose you a slip from the Sun of this morning communicating facts you may not otherwise get as to the extraordinary movements of Mountebank Lincoln. Some incidents in Balto. the papers discreetly omit. At the Calvert station there were not less [...]
Democrat Office, Winona, Min., Feb. 22d, 1861. Hon. Howell Cobb: The action of the Southern States in seceding from a Union which refused to recognize and protect their constitutional rights, meeting my most cordial approbation, and the absolute proscription of every Journal in the North which defends this action, has induced me to sell my [...]
Bank of the Republic, New York, Feby. 22d, 1861. My Dear Sir: If the S. Confederacy are going to make a tariff, how will they adjust the navigation of the Mississippi? It is greatly better to put a ten pr. ct. duty on exports; but best of all to go free trade in full. That [...]
Howell Cobb to His Wife. Montgomery [Ala.], 20 Feby., 1861. Mv Dear Wife, . . . President Davis, as you have seen, has arrived and been inaugurated. His inaugural was highly satisfactory and the occasion was one of the most impressive scenes I ever witnessed. The crowd was large and decidedly the finest audience of [...]
From the following brief article the reader can form some idea of the persecution to which Union men had to submit in the town of Fredericksburg as early as the 14th of February, 1861, the date of its publication:– “Why is it that secessionists talk of compromise with derision? Why is it that they wish [...]
Milledgeville [Ga.], Feby. 12th, 1861. Dear Sir: I have appointed Lewis F. Kenan Captain and young Mr. Barrow 2d Lieut, as you and others of the Georgia delegation requested. Col. Kenan’s course, while a political opponent, has been towards me high toned and honorable, and it affords me much pleasure to appoint his son who [...]
R. K. Hudgins to Howell Cobb. New Orleans, February 11th, 1861. Sir: The revenue cutter Washington, authorised by you while Secretary of the Treasury to be repaired at this place under my superintendence, doubtless you are aware, has been taken possession of by the authorities of Louisiana with the view of ultimately constituting her a [...]
T. Allan[i] to Howell Cobb. Washington D. C., February 11, 1861. Dear Governor, The glorious news of a Southern Confederacy was received here on yesterday and has created a profound sensation. Whilst the tinkers from the border States are here in secret conclave saving the Union (as if it were not dissolved as far back [...]
Bank of the Republic, New York, Feby. 9, 1861. My Dear Sir: Notwithstanding I have no reply to any of my late letters to you, knowing your constant engagements I still write you. The arms seized here have been put at the command of their owners—the question in dispute being the expenses, some 3 or [...]
Junius Hillyer to Howell Cobb. Washington [D. C.], Saturday night, Feb. 9th, 1861. Dear Sir: I recd, your letter tonight. I will resign on Monday and leave for home on Tuesday morning. I did not know of there being any feeling in Geo. on the subject, though my place here was becoming daily more and [...]
Howell Cobb to His Wife. Montgomery [Ala.], 6 Feby., 1861. My Dear Wife, Since my election as President of the Congress I have been engaged all the time and had no chance to write. We have gone into secret session, and on pain of expulsion not permitted to divulge anything that is going on. The [...]