{"id":1692,"date":"2021-02-09T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/1692"},"modified":"2021-02-09T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:58:59","slug":"our-washington-correspondence-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/our-washington-correspondence-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Washington Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 1861; <em>The Charleston Mercury<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, February 6, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>We behold a strange spectacle this bright, soft, spring-like morning. The Coercionists and Secessionists are both flinging up their hats at the same thing \u2013 both rejoicing over the submission triumph in Virginia. The Coercionists hail it as the harbinger of an abject surrender to Abolitionism. The Secessionists are delighted at this, as they believe, grave delusion \u2013 thinking its effect will be to preclude compromise, and so eventually carry Virginia out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, February 6, 1861. We behold a strange spectacle this bright, soft, spring-like morning. The Coercionists and Secessionists are both flinging up their hats at the same thing \u2013 both rejoicing over the submission triumph in Virginia. The Coercionists hail it as the harbinger of an abject surrender to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charleston-Mercury.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}