{"id":11131,"date":"2021-02-07T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:50:18","slug":"anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/anecdotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution has been moving on regularly and tomorrow will determine the fate of Virginia and probably the fate of other border States."},"content":{"rendered":"
Jane Stuart Woolsey to Cousin Margaret Hodge.<\/em><\/address>\n

Feb. 7, 1861.<\/p>\n

Night before last a Virginia gentleman said to us: \u201cDon\u2019t be too sanguine. Union does not mean in Virginia what it means in New York. There it means only delay\u2013it means Crittenden\u2019s compromise; it means secession, not today but tomorrow.\u201d The same gentleman said: \u201cFloyd was no gentleman. No Virginia gentleman would ask him to dinner\u201d (the climax of earthly honors I suppose) and that \u201che was intoxicated at the Richmond dinner and not responsible for his speech.\u201d This Virginian said he would \u201cstake his existence,\u201d or something of the sort, on the honor of the South in paying, to the last cent, everything it owes the North. As an offset to this, Mr. Lockwood last night repeated to us the contents of three letters he had read yesterday, sent to acquaintances of his in answer to requests for payment. One said: \u201cI shall pay, of course, every farthing I owe you, in cash, but not till I pay it in the currency of the Southern Confederacy.\u201d Another sent a note to the effect: \u201cI promise to pay, etc., five minutes after demand, to any Northern Abolitionist the same coin in which we paid John Brown, endorsed by thousands of true Southern hearts.\u201d The third said: \u201cI cannot return the goods, as you demand, for they are already sold, and the money invested in muskets to shoot you\u2013 Yankees!\u201d Georgy was at a party last night at Amy Talbot\u2019s, where nothing but politics was talked. Uncle Edward has just popped in, for a minute, and says: \u201cAll I am afraid of now is that Virginia and the other Border states will stay in; and we shall have the curse of their slavery on our shoulders without the blessings of a complete union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Roosevelt dined with us on Saturday, and I said: \u201cWhat do you go for, Doctor?\u201d \u201cI go for gun-powder!\u201d he answered. Mrs. Eliza Reed hears from her brother-in-law, a clergyman in Beaufort, S. C., that she \u201cought to be very thankful that her property is safely invested at the South\u201d (partly in his own hands) and that he is \u201csorry he is not able to forward her the interest now due,\u201d the fact being that she has not had a cent of her income this winter.<\/p>\n

One more anecdote and then my gossip is over. Mrs. Dulany overheard two negresses talking on a corner in Baltimore. \u201cWait till the fourth of March,\u201d said one of them, \u201c and then won\u2019t I slap my missus\u2019 face!\u201d<\/p>\n\"\"\n

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was inaugurated President of the United States on the fourth of March, 1861. In closing his inaugural address he said to the Southern seceders:<\/address>\n
\u201cIn your hands my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of Civil War. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.\u201d<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Stuart Woolsey to Cousin Margaret Hodge. Feb. 7, 1861. Night before last a Virginia gentleman said to us: \u201cDon\u2019t be too sanguine. Union does not mean in Virginia what it means in New York. There it means only delay\u2013it means Crittenden\u2019s compromise; it means secession, not today but tomorrow.\u201d The same gentleman said: \u201cFloyd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jane-Stewart-Woolsey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}