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PRESIDENTIAL Conventions of 1860 |
Journal
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March 1, 1860: Page 203 “ Mr. Davis . . . submitted the following resolutions; which were ordered to be printed: 1. Resolved, That, in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, . . . 2. Resolved, That, negro slavery, as it exists in fifteen States of this Union, composes an important portion of their domestic institutions, inherited from their ancestors, and existing at the adoption of the Constitution, . . . The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill (H. R. 5) making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the 30th of June, 1861; and having been amended on the motion of Mr. Davis, it was reported to the Senate, and the amendment was concurred in. Page 205 The President announced that the hour of two o'clock, fixed by the Senate for the consideration of the bill (S. 1) to grant to any person who is the head of a family, and a citizen of the United States, a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land out of the public domain, upon condition of occupancy and cultivation of the same for the period herein specified, as a special order, had arrived.” The Democratic convention assembled at Charleston in April, 1860. The southern members “ withdrew from the assembly, spurning the pleas of their colleagues not to break up the union of hearts on ‘a mere theory’ ” Politics of Slavery. “ During the confusion in the Democratic ranks, the Republicans, in high glee over the quarrels of the opposition, held their convention in Chicago— a sectional gathering except for representatives from five slave states.” “ They were in favor of restricting the area of slavery;” “ liberty for the territories; free homesteads for farmers, a protective tariff, and a Pacific railway.” “ Since this declaration of principles was well fitted to work a union of forces, it was essential that the candidate should not divide them.” “ The available candidate was Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. Born in Kentucky, he was of southern origin. A son of poor frontier parents, self-educated, a pioneer who in his youth had labored in field and forest, he appealed to the voters of the backwoods. Still by an uncanny genius for practical affairs, he had forged his way to the front as a shrewd lawyer and politician.” “ On the slavery question Lincoln’s attitude was firm but conservative. He disliked slavery and frankly said so; yet he was not an abolitionist and he saw no way in which the institution could be uprooted. On the contrary he favored enforcing the fugitive slave law and he was not prepared to urge even the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.” “ Evidently Lincoln was the man of the hour: . . .” “ He sent word to his friends at » See: F. D. R., An established tradition (last article). Thursday, May 10, 1860: the U. S. Congress passed the Morrill Tariff Bill (H. R. 338). TaxJudas.com Thursday, May 24, 1860, Journal of the Senate: Page 507 “ The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Davis the 1st of March, in relation to the questions of slavery, and the rights of property in the Territories of the United States; and, It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas ... 36 Nays ... 19 ” Original Thirteenth Amendment, Ratified March 12, 1819. Who was this “Great Liberator ” ? Lincoln's influence. Lincoln— Becoming an Emancipator: (Ch. 3.) Proposed “ Explanatory Amendment ” — March 2, 1861. Lincoln’s inaugural address: MONDAY, March 4, 1861. March 5, 1861: Fort Sumter, and— Provocation! East Tennessee presented to the nation a “splendid example of unadulterated patriotism” grounded in a deep and strong love for their whole country.” The mountaineers, strictly speaking, felt no concern about the institution of slavery itself, and knew but little [of it ] . . . . Generally they looked upon slavery as something foreign to their social life, but they had no imperative, philanthropic impulses to contend against it. . . If the perpetuity of the Union or that of slavery were the question at issue, They would have no hesitation in deciding. Let slavery perish and the Union live.” Thomas W. Humes, from Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee. January 1, 1861: “ To think that this mighty nation of ours, second to none while united, is now dissolved by that hydra-headed monster fanaticism, that has in ages past destroyed everything that was good, everything that advanced the prosperity of the people. It is the power used by tyrants to destroy the people and take from them their rights and liberties. Our brethren of the free states having drunk deep of this infatuation have determined to deprive the Southern States of their rights under the Constitution in the election of a black Republican President under the forms of the Constitution by a large majority of the people for the very express ourpose to bring the federal government in conflict with the rights of the Southern States, setting aside the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Constitution. South Carolina feeling that her rights are to be no longer regarded in the Union has called a convention of the people, which has met and unanimously passed the ordinance of secession and is therefore no longer in the Union.” “ The Diary of Hiram Fain of Rogersville: An East Tennessee Secessionist, January 1, 1861. Landon Carter Haynes declared in Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 2, 1861, that Tennessee should abandon the Union for the Confederacy because she was “ Bound to the South by identity of institutions; bound to the South by soil and productions; bound to the South by reciprocal interests, bound to the South by the lines of her latitude; bound to the South by eternal laws of nature and God; bound to the South by the great rivers that pour their floods into the Gulf of Mexico and give her an easy transit to the consumers and her products through the world; let her feel that her union with the Southern States . . . is natural and inseparable, and the unalterable condition of her present and future safety, prosperity, and independence.” James W. Bellamy, M.A. Thesis, 1952: “ The Political Career of Landon Carter Haynes.” April 11, 1861: Civil War begins in Charleston Harbor! April 23, 1861: “ What a change somewhere! I have defended the Inaugural of Pres. Lincoln— I thought it meant peace & not until yesterday evening did I believe the report that He made a declaration of War against the South & furthermore that whilst he professed peace & feigned the purpose of withdrawing Federal Troops from the Southern forts, he was all the while seeking to strengthen his foothold there. So long as I could look upon this as a great national question I have [stood] decidedly and unswervingly. [Now] I stand by the South. I am opposed to the thing of legal secession & just as much to ‘coercion.’ In a Republican government like ours can but regard both these as monstrous political heresies— but we can not occupy neutral ground in this war; that is unnatural, impossible, wrong for several weighty reasons, this Revolution without the seeking of the border states is forced upon them. The war is inevitable, let it come— we must fight.” “ G. E. Eagleton, Notes in his day book, April 23, 1861, “ ‘Stray Thoughts’: The Civil War Diary of Ethie M. Fout Eagleton.” May 18, 1861: “ To me, this deadly struggle is a mystery on the part of the North, what do they want. It cannot be possible Christians in the North wish to become usurpers of our homes and drive us as exiles into foreign lands. It cannot be to ameliorate the condition of our colored people. When every step they take but enhances the wretchedness of their condition by making them enemies to the best earthly friends they can have. It seems to me passing strange their unjust interference . . .” “ Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain: A Confederate Woman In East Tennessee, May 18, 1861. Nov. 20, 1863: Observing as Union and Confederate forces close in during the siege of Knoxville: “ Since dark, the whole county the other side of the rail-road appears to be on fire. So many families made houseless. While the fire was raging the two Yankee bands in town struck up. One would play a tune, and then the other. It made me perfectly furious. I could have seen every Yankee here murdered and not shuddered.” “ A Very Violent Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House. 1887: The Recent Past FROM A SOUTHERN STANDPOINT, Reminiscences of a Grandfather. The American: His Morals! » “ IN THE SUMMER OF 1932, with the nation mired in the depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated for the presidency by the Democratic convention in Chicago. He began by violating an established tradition. Throughout the nation’s history, it had been the practice of presidential nominees to stay away from the convention and accept the nomination only after formal notification, several weeks after the event itself. Roosevelt departed from precedent and flew from New York to Chicago to address the delegates in person.” Quoted in: THE SECOND BILL Of RIGHTS FDR’S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION AND WHY WE NEED IT MORE THAN EVER, by Cass R. Sunstein, 2004, page 17. President Roosevelt defined “ Rights”— as the means of correcting Wrongs. “ He complained of leaders who maintained that ‘economic laws— sacred, inviolable, unchangeable— cause panics which no one could prevent. . . . We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature, they are made by human beings.’ ” He “ The conceptual development amounted to an attack on the whole idea of laissez The Re-Union Party The Unionist— John C. Calhoun. Historical Histri-Onyx ! The “Cheerful Science?” Ac-Cent-You-ate The Positive, E-liminate the Negative: (Temptation for Elected Leaders), Latch on to the affirmative, Don’t Mess with Mister In-Between: (Lobbyists, and Ladies). FAIR TAX InDefinition.com TaxJudas.com The Uses of History How Capitalism Saved America. Competition Is A Sin! Gratifying Labor RKOmedy.com Isonomia.US The “Cheerful Science” ? LandGrab.us KeloTherapy.com Daniel Drew— something on the Anvil. Political causes? The War of Ideas. |
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