Posted on 02/19/2021 7:47:09 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 18.
The Peace Conference were in session, to-day, upwards of five hours. The debate was the most animated of any since the commencement of the Convention. The two reports from the Committee were under consideration. The propositions respecting the Territories, establishing or permitting Slavery south of 36° 30', were opposed earnestly by gentlemen from New-York, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin. Messrs. TYLER and GUTHRIE are leading advocates of the majority report, and earnestly urged upon the Convention immediate and direct action. They object decidedly to the proposition of Mr. FIELD, of New-York, for a National Convention, on the ground that before such a Convention can be held, unless some compromise be offered, or adopted, all the Border States will go out of the Union and will join the Southern Confederacy, binding themselves to that organization so strongly that the Convention will be powerless to effect a reorganization. The tone of JEFF. DAVIS' speech is alluded to by them to substantiate the determination declared by the States which go out, never to reunite with the North. A majority of Pennsylvanians, and some from all the Northern States, it is now thought, will accept the majority report, which, with all the Border State compromisers, will secure its adoption by a close vote. A canvass this morning of the Conference, shows only about half-a-dozen majority in its favor. The Slave State representatives say that its adoption, under such circumstances, and by such a vote, will be of no avail, and will not be accepted as settlement, as it will not be an expression of the wishes of the Free States. Several gentlemen have argued these points at length. The feasibility and constitutionality of the propositions in the report were discussed at considerable length.
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Hi Professor.
Wasn’t there a conspiracy to kill Lincoln befoe he made it to DC. Was it foiled in Baltimore?
5.56mm
I’m not sure if there was anything of that sort proven. Memory is hazy, though. Excerpts in the next few days should shed light on the matter. Especially David Donald and Doris K. Goodwin.
...Should reason guide the action of the Government from which we have separated, a policy so detrimental to the civilized world, the Northern States included, could not be dictated by even the strongest desire to inflict injury upon us; but otherwise a terrible responsibility will rest upon it, and the suffering of millions will bear testimony to the folly and wickedness of our aggressors.
In the meantime there will remain to us, besides the ordinary means before suggested, the well-known resources for retaliation upon the commerce of an enemy."
I also recall getting through Baltimore required a lot of security. We vacationed on Maryland's Eastern Shore a few years ago and all of the Civil War monuments there are to the Confederacy.
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