March 28th.–I was honored to-day by visits from a great number of Members of Congress, journalists, and others. Judging from the expressions of most of the Washington people, they would gladly see a Southern Cabinet installed in their city. The cold shoulder is given to Mr. Lincoln, and all kinds of stories and jokes are [...]
March 27th.–This morning, after breakfast, Mr. Sanford called, according to promise, and took me to the State department. It is a very humble–in fact, dingy–mansion, two stories high, and situated at the end of the magnificent line of colonnade in white marble, called the Treasury, which is hereafter to do duty as the head-quarters of [...]
There is no specific entry in the book for March 26th. However, since there is a clear demarcation of arrival at Washington, the entry for the 25th is split at this point for publication in this blog.—MpG 1/23/2011March 26th.—At six A.M., we were roused up by the arrival of the train at Washington, having [...]
March 25th.–I had an invitation to meet several members of the New York press association at breakfast. Among the company were–Mr. Bayard Taylor, with whose extensive notes of travel his countrymen are familiar – a kind of enlarged Inglis, full of the genial spirit which makes travelling in company so agreeable, but he has come [...]
March 23rd.–It is announced positively that the authorities in Pensacola and Charleston have refused to allow any further supplies to be sent to Fort Pickens, the United States fleet in the Gulf, and to Fort Sumter. Everywhere the Southern leaders are forcing on a solution with decision and energy, whilst the Government appears to be [...]
March 22d.–A snow-storm worthy of Moscow or Riga flew through New York all day, depositing more food for the mud. I paid a visit to Mr. Horace Greeley, and had a long conversation with him. He expressed great pleasure at the intelligence that I was going to visit the Southern States. “Be sure you examine [...]
March 20th.–The papers are still full of Sumter and Pickens. The reports that they are or are not to be relieved are stated and contradicted in each paper without any regard to individual consistency. The “Tribune” has an article on my speech at the St. Patrick’s dinner, to which it is pleased to assign reasons [...]
March 19. The morning newspapers contain reports of last night’s speeches which are amusing in one respect, at all events, as affording specimens of the different versions which may be given of the same matter. A “citizen” who was kind enough to come in to shave me, paid me some easy compliments, in the manner [...]
Monday, 18th.–”St. Patrick’s day in the morning” being on the 17th, was kept by the Irish to-day. In the early morning the sounds of drumming, fifing, and bugling came with the hot water and my Irish attendant into the room. He told me: “We’ll have a pretty nice day for it. The weather’s often agin [...]
Sunday, 17th March.–The first thing I saw this morning, after a vision of a waiter pretending to brush my clothes with a feeble twitch composed of fine fibre had vanished, was a procession of men, forty or fifty perhaps, preceded by a small band (by no excess of compliment can I say, of music), trudging [...]