Posted on 01/22/2021 5:57:37 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
All Brooklyn was thrown into a feverish state of excitement last evening, by a current rumor that the Navy-yard and appurtenances were to be seized by the sympathizers in this vicinity with the Secessionists. Last night, according to Madam Rumor, was the time at which the descent was to have been made.
Just how much foundation there was for the rumor could not be definitely ascertained; but it appears that Capt. FOOTE, who is in command of the Yard during the temporary absence of Commander BREESE, at Philadelphia, deemed the information he had sufficiently reliable and of sufficient importance to warrant him in taking prompt measures for the protection of the Government property under his charge.
A consultation with the Mayor was held, which resulted in the issuing of an order by Major-Gen. DURYEA to the Fifth Brigade, Gen. CROOKE, which caused the prompt assembling of that command, under arms, and ready for immediate action.
The Thirteenth Regiment, Col. ABEL SMITH, Fourteenth Regiment, Col. A.M. WOOD, and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Col. BENNET, assembled at the City Armory, corner of Cranberry and Henry streets, and the Seventieth Regiment were at the State Arsenal on Portland, near Myrtle-avenue, they having before received orders to meet there last night for drill.
All the available Police force of Brooklyn -- about 150 in number -- were ordered to rendezvous at the Second Precinct Station House, corner of York and Jay streets, and at a hall on York-street near the Navy-yard gate. Fifty of the River Police were on duty in three boats about the approaches by water to the Navy-yard. In the Yard the sentinels were doubled and an extra guard was placed upon the Receivingship North Carolina.
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Pretty eerie parallel between this over reaction to rumors about the Brooklyn naval yard and our recent inaugural festivities.
Back then it was only hundreds of troops called up, not 26,000 but then maybe the perceived enemy was not thought to be as dangerous as today’s Trump supporters?
;-)
Pretty eerie parallel between this over reaction to rumors about the Brooklyn naval yard and our recent inaugural festivities.
Back then it was only hundreds of troops called up, not 26,000 but then maybe the perceived enemy was not thought to be as dangerous as today’s Trump supporters?
;-)
Professor, don’t tell anyone else what I’m about to tell you.
I believe that I’m caught in a malfunctioning hollow deck some where north of the Pleiades. First I’m in 2021 one moment, and wham, I’m in 1861 the next.
If it weren’t for the players and their costumes, I’d be totally lost in space.
Don’t tell anyone I said this.
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Mums the word.
Here is another editorial we just can't let pass by without comment.
In it our wise editors notice the amazing alliance between Northern extremist abolitionists and Southern secessionists, to the point where abolitionists are cheering-on disunion.
Editors tell us that abolitionists welcome disunion as "the utter repudiation of the unholy bargain of 1787," and believe it signals "deliverance of four million slaves".
Wow! Unholy bargain? Deliverance of four million?
A bit of a reach, I'd think...
Mr Phillips takes pride always in proclaiming that he is not a citizen of the United States.
He has never sworn allegiance to its Government; -- he never votes or exercises any political right or performs any political duty; -- he hates the Constitution, the Government, the History of the country and lives only to wage open warfare upon the American Union.
From such a man political curses are so many title-deeds to confidence and esteem.
He is no hypocrite; he affects no love for the country, no wish for its welfare, no thought or aim for anything but the utter overthrow of its government.
He has been working for years to accomplish this object, -- and he is now fairly intoxicated with joy at the prospect of success.
It is a curious sight to see the Charleston Mercury and Wendell Phillips joining fraternal hands in this work of destruction.
Each rejoices in the labor of the other, -- each encourages the other to fresh exertions, -- each relies upoon the other for the aid essential to consummation of his schemes.
Yet they work thus in unison from opposite motives, -- the one to perpetuate, and the other to abolish slavery.
Both see, however, that it is the Union alone which stands between these hostile sections and compels them to keep the peace, -- and it is, therefore, only by destroying the Union that they can hope to achieve their cherished wish to get at each other's throats!
Meantime, we repose securely on the joint hatred of these fraternal fanatics, as the surest pledge for the value and permanence of the American Union.
The great mass of the American people are not zealots nor madmen..."
Interesting that this editorial appears the day George Templeton Strong records in his diary that he is beginning to think that radical abolitionists like Phillips and even John Brown might have been right all along. That is a major policy shift for George. I wonder if he read this editorial before posting his diary entry. Not unlikely
I think that's true. Certainly he was interested in race (slavery) to the exclusion of the other issues that interested most Americans of his time. He is seen as one of the few Americans in his era who really may have embraced racial equality. Without abandoning that belief, after the war he went on to champion women's suffrage, prohibition, Indians, labor, and paper money. Richard Hofstadter, who thought all of America's great leaders subscribed to a liberal-conservative consensus (and criticized them for it) singled out Phillips and Calhoun as the two illustrious Americans who were outside the consensus and critical of it.
You can find a speech of Phillips's that may have been included in one of the earlier Times posts here (though you have to give the Times your data to read it). It's very rambling and hard to follow. Audiences in his day must have loved it (when they didn't hate him for being an abolitionist) but I found myself wishing he'd get to the point (and wondering if there even really was a point).
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