THE CRISIS OF THE UNION: PREVALENCE OF A BETTER FEELING; THE SECESSION MOVEMENT; A VISIT TO MR. LINCOLN (12/20/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/20/1860

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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Senator JOHNSON'S speech to-day was a strong vindication of the supremacy of the Constitution, and a refutation of the asserted right of any State to secede. It was able and impressive, and was listened to with interest. Naturally enough the ultra Southern Senators are dissatisfied with it, as it was severe in its denunciation of Southern ultraism, and left little hope that Tennessee would yield to it. Gen. LANE made a brief reply.

The Deficiency bill was passed in the House, including an appropriation of $900,000 for the return of recaptured Africans.

EDWIN E. STANTON, of Pittsburgh, Penn., was to-day confirmed as Attorney-General. No other business of importance was transacted in Executive Session.

A fight occurred last evening at the National Hotel, between ISAIAH T. WILLIAMS, a lawyer of New-York City, and Capt. JOHN GRAHAM, in which WILLIAMS was knocked down.

The Secretary of the Navy will in a short time communicate to Congress ,the report and maps of the Chiriqui expedition. A letter from the President of Costa Rica expresses gratification at the success of the expedition.

The statement that FOED, Printer of the House, had resigned, is incorrect. He says, in a communication to the House, that nothing can be made under the present reduction of prices, and he is willing, when the Government Printing-office shall assume the work, to turn his over to the Superintendent, and vacate the office; but he says he will fulfill his contract even if he does not make his expenses. It is, perhaps, fortunate for the country that Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS had inserted in the Appropriation bill of last session an interdiction of the purchase of patented arms by either the Secretary of War or the Navy, without an express appropriation for that purpose by Congress.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Crisis of the Union: Prevalence of a Better Feeling – 2
The Secession Movement: Latest Reports from the South – 2-4
The Great Atlantic Telegraph – 4-5
The Kansas Famine – 5
A Visit to Mr. Lincoln – 5
Editorial: The Secession Administration – 5
Editorial: Fall in the Price of Slaves – 5-6
The North Atlantic Telegraph – 6
A Sensible Proceeding – 6
King Cotton: England Looking for a Supply Without Dependence upon the United States – 6-7
General City News – 7
The Cora Slave Case – 7
Accident on the Hackensack Railroad – 7
Sinking of the Schooner Richmond-Loss of Seven Lives – 7
Later from Havana – 7

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“Our American Cousin” was playing in 1860? It must have been very popular to have still been showing by 1865.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

In 1860 it was a Broadway revival. By 1865 it was off-Broadway. George Strong went to see it a while back. He gave it good marks.