Posted on 02/23/2021 5:52:18 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, Feb. 22.
The ceremony of raising the flag of thirty-four stars over the Hall of Independence this morning, by Mr. LINCOLN, was attended with all the solemnity due such an occasion, the scene being an impressive one. At the rising of the sun crowds of people streamed from all parts of the city towards the State House, and very soon every inch of ground was occupied, a vast number of ladies being present.
The weather was cool and bracing.
At 7 o'clock Mr. LINCOLN was escorted to the Hall, and there received by THEODORE CUYLER, who warmly welcomed him to its venerable walls in the hour of national peril and distress, when the great work achieved by the wisdom and patriotism of our fathers seemed threatened with instant ruin.
M. LINCOLN responded as follows:
Mr. CUYLER: -- I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in this place, where were collected together the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to principle from which sprang the institutions under which we live. You have kindly suggested to me that in my hands is the task of restoring peace to the present distracted condition of the country. I can say in return, Sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiment which originated and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence.
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In the War of Confederate Aggression being waged on the United States we see here yet another incident which somehow didn't make it to the history books.
The state of Georgia, it's said, seized three "New York ships" -- as if those ships belonged to the state of New York.
They didn't, they were privately owned, but the Georgia governor had them seized to hold for ransom against the release of military weapons on order from New York.
We are not told what, exactly those arms were, or if they'd already been paid for, and if so, by whom?
Without further information we might well assume those weapons were ordered & paid for by the US government thus making the Georgia governor's actions nothing more than piracy.
This editorial begins quoting a letter from the Confederate Charleston Mercury opining:
...Mr. Spratts letter thus referred to was a very strong protest against the action of the Provisional Government at Montgomery in prohibiting the African Slave-trade.
He went so far as to declare that, if the prohibition were made permanent, it would inevitably produce a counter revolution, because the great trouble with the South was a lack of labor, and they would inevitably insist upon measures to increase their supply."
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