ISBN: 9780217225823

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...Carolina service, obtained admittance to Sumter, and had a conversation with Anderson.1 To ascertain whether there was, as Seward had maintained, a latent Union feeling in South Carolina, the President induced Hurlbut, of Illinois, a personal friend, to visit his native city of Charleston, and learn the public opinion of the city and of the State from Petigru''--now the only Union man of prominence in the city--in whose office he had for four years studied law. Ward H. Lamon, a confidential companion of Lincoln, accompanied him. Hurlbut reported that the sentiment of South Carolina was unanimous for lasting separation, and that there was no attachment to the Union.'' Fox''s visit confirmed him in the notion that his plan was entirely feasible.4 In the meantime, by direction of the President, an order had been sent by the war-steamer Mohawk to Captain Vogdes on board the sloop-of-war Brooklyn, lying off Fort Pickens, to land his company of artillery and reinforce that fort.'' 1 McClure''s Lincoln, p. 56. It makes me heart-sick. All over the country our party arc by the ears, fighting over offices worth one hundred to five hundred dollars.--Colfax to his mother, two weeks after the inauguration, Life of Colfax, Hollister, p. 173. The Diary of a Public Man, entry of March 7, speaks of the strange and uncouth appearance of a great proportion of the people... lounging about the steps of the Treasury Department and the lobbies of the hotels.... Certainly, in all my long experience of Washington, I have never seen such a swarm of uncouth beings. The clamor for offices is already quite extraordinary, and these poor people undoubtedly belong to the horde which has pressed in here to seek places under the new administration, which neither has nor can hope... James Ford Rhodes, Books, History, History Of The United States From The Compromise Of 1850 Volume 3 Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 3; Original Published by: The Macmillan Company in 1895 in 687 pages; Subjects: United States; History / General; History / United States / General; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Literary Criticism / General;<

ISBN: 9780217225823

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tions whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem." In reply, President Buchanan echoed the sentiment.1 Between August 16 and September 1, four hundred messages were sent through the cable.2 The last one, to Cyrus W. Field, was read by him at a great celebration over Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tions whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem." In reply, President Buchanan echoed the sentiment.1 Between August 16 and September 1, four hundred messages were sent through the cable.2 The last one, to Cyrus W. Field, was read by him at a great celebration over the success of the enterprise, which took place September 1, in New York City. Then, through a defect which could not be remedied, the Atlantic telegraph became silent. Again had the enterprise failed. But Field was not one to be crushed; he kept at work. The crash of civil conflict delayed the undertaking, but the year I860 saw a cable successfully laid, and a permanent telegraphic connection established between Europe and America. Although the attempt to establish an American steamship line, which should carry passengers and mails as swiftly and safely across the Atlantic as did the English vessels, had failed, and although the Atlantic telegraph was not for the time a success, yet these noble efforts show to what extent the energetic spirits of the country were willing to embark in hazardous enterprises, and that they sought after honor as well as profit. Such attempts serve to bring out clearly by contrast the successful results obtained in other undertakings, and they emphasize for our purpose the great prosperity of the country from 1846 to 1857. What were the causes of this extraordinary material development? In the main, they were the same as those of our growth from the adoption of the Constitution-those which gave rise to the well-being that Webster rejoiced at in his Plymouth speech of 1820. "Two thousand miles westward from the rock where their fathers landed," ho said, "may now be found the sons of the Pilgrims, cultivating smiling fields, rearing towns and Books, History~~General, History-of-the-United-States-from-the-Compromise-of-1850~~James-Ford-Rhodes, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<