THE GREAT REBELLION: Further Reports About the Engagement at Fort Pickens; The Navy-Yard Destroyed, and Bragg Calling for Reinforcements (11/30/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 11/30/1861

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WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 29.

Dispatches have been received at the Navy Department from Flag-officer DUPONT, dated Port Royal, 25th inst., giving the gratifying intelligence that the flag of the United States is flying over the territory of the State of Georgia. Tybee Island, which he says is within easy mortar distance of Fort Pulaski, has been taken possession of, and the approaches to Savannah completely cut off. On the Island is a strong martello tower, with a battery at its base.

The National flag now floats over the soil of every seceded State except Alabama and Arkansas. In Virginia it floats over one-third of the State; in North Carolina, at Hatteras Inlet; in South Carolina, at Port Royal and a half-dozen neighboring Islands; in Georgia, on Tybee Island; in Florida, at Key West, Santa Rosa Island and other points; in Mississippi, at Ship Island; in Louisiana, at Chandeleur Island; in Texas, at El Paso; and in Tennessee, at Bristol' Elizabethtown, and other points in the eastern part of the State.

Lieuts. JOHN L. WORDEN and ROBT. SILDEN, of the navy, and Mr. WILLIAM A. ABBOTT, also of the navy, arrived in this City to-day -- the first from New-York, and the others direct from Richmond via Norfolk and Fortress Monroe. All three were recently released, having been exchanged for rebel officers. They met with a hearty welcome at the Navy depot.

Lieut. WORDEN had been seven months a prisoner in the Montgomery Old Jail, he having been arrested by order of Gen. BRAGG, on his way North, after he had conveyed the order to the fleet off Pensacola to reinforce Lieut. SLEMMER, at Fort Pickens. Believing that the dispatches that he bore from the Government to Capt. ADAMS, of the fleet, would be opened by the rebels, he opened them

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The Great Rebellion: Further Reports About the Engagement at Fort Pickens – 2-3
Rumors from Fort Pickens: Further Rebel Accounts of the Engagement – 3-5
The Scene of Operations in Western Florida – 4
Doings on the Rebel Coast – 5
Important from England: An Anticipation of the Arrest of Slidell and Mason – 5-6
Slave-Catching in the Army – 6
Editorial: England and the United States – 6-7
Editorial: The Social Organization of the South-A New Duty for the Government – 7
England and the Seizure of Slidell and Mason – 7
Editorial: The Mission of the Stone-Fleet – 7-8
Editorial: Philologic Compensations – 8
What Mr. Calhoun Thought of Suppressing Rebellion – 8
The Expedition to Mexico – 8

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"What Mr. Calhoun Thought of Suppressing Rebellion – 8"

This refers to the little-remembered 1841-3 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, which did include a military challenge for which Thomas Dorr was eventually arrested, tried, convicted & jailed for treason.
Then Secretary of State John C. Calhoun (D-SC) commented on that rebellion saying,

"...the Federal government shall do its duty under guarantees of the constitution by promptly suppressing physical force as an element of change..."

So the Times here suggests Pres. Lincoln is merely following the policy prescriptions laid out by Calhoun (& many others) many years before.