THE DISUNION TROUBLES: Excitement Relative to the Proceedings at Pittsburgh; FROM MISSOURI: Conservative Feeling in St. Louis and Missouri (12/27/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/27/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 26.

The report that the Military Committee of the Senate had under consideration the Pittsburgh affair, is incorrect; but the Cabinet being in session it was discussed by them. It is universally conceded that if the Government insists upon the shipment of arms from Pittsburgh, it must also reinforce the Southern forts, and enforce the laws there. The Administration is in great tribulation about it. Efforts will be made, by influential persons sent from Washington, to induce the people to desist, and allow the arms to be shipped.

Mr. CASS was on the Avenue this afternoon. He reiterated, to a prominent Republican representative his indignation at the course of President BUCHANAN in not reinforcing the forts. He says his public life is closed.

The report of a mass meeting at Carlyle, on the border of Maryland, sent here, resolving that the Government cannot recognize secession, and must use force if necessary, is regarded as a strong indication of what is the feeling of the people of Pennsylvania.

Mr. ETHERIDGE, of Tennessee, will speak at Baltimore next week, and will make a strong, able, Union speech.

I saw a letter from one of the soldiers at Fort Sumter to his mother to-day. He says the fort is in excellent condition for defence, full of ammunition and arms, and with a few more men, could defy any enemy that could approach it. He says all hands expect a conflict, and feel greatly alarmed at the prospect, because their numbers are so small. They hope the Government will do something to aid them, -- if not, they will defend the fort to the best of their ability. The closing words are quite touching and solemn.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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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 Disunion Troubles: Excitement Relative to the Proceedings at Pittsburgh – 2-5
Naval Intelligence – 5
From Missouri: Conservative Feeling in St. Louis and Missouri – 5
Editorial: Southern Trade-Its Amount and Comparative Value– 6
Editorial: The Cuban Slave-Trade– 6-7
Editorial: Conflicting Authorities on the Slave-Trade – 7
Putting on Airs – 7-8
Federal Aid and Comfort to Disunion – 8
Delay of the Pony Express – 8
Death of Ralph Farnum – 8
Death of Hon. Henry M. Fuller – 8
Fire at South Bend, Ind. – 8
Railroad Casualties – 8
Boy Drowned at Sackett’s Harbor – 8
Gone into Liquidation – 8
Naval Intelligence – 8

[nevergore]

Geez..... I didn’t completely read the title that this was historical ......

My first thought was damn, the war finally started and I’ve missed the opening shot.....

I gotta’ get more coffee to break through the fog...

[GreenLanternCorps]

Noted the death (last page) of Ralph Farnum, veteran of Bunker Hill, on the eve of another conflict...

[GreenLanternCorps]

Noted the death (last page) of Ralph Farnum, veteran of Bunker Hill, on the eve of another conflict...

[GreenLanternCorps]

Ugh, sorry for the double post.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This could have been written this morning...

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St. Louis, Mo., Saturday Dec. 22, 1860.
     During this season of sensations and alarms, when the blue-lights of the melodrama shed a livid and ghastly radiance upon the political stage, a veracious newsmonger will find any dlsh which he may prepare for the public palate from this place flat and spiritless, lacking as it must, the essential spice of secession or the rich aromatic flavor of treason. We are in good sooth a quiet humdrum, Union-loving, law-abiding people here, who, suffering intensely in the sensitive pocket nerve from the madness which rules the hour and paralizes public credit, but who do yet despair of the Constitution and the Confederacy, nor realize that the success of the Republicans has been the ruin of the Republic. Although a few ambitious youths have sported in the streets St. Louis the far-famed cockade of disunion, to the amused amazement of sober citizens, and the infinite delectation or a "rabble rout " of curious boys, yet the large majority of the people of Missouri are in favor of giving a fair trial to the President who has been fairly elected, before they permit the chivalric champions of Southern rights and wrongs to smash things generally.