Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by Hay
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[Illustration: PORTRAIT AND SIGNATURE OF A. LINCOLN.]
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A HISTORY
BY JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY
VOLUME TWO
New York The Century Co. 1890
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOL. II
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (_Frontispiece_) From an ambrotype taken for Marcus L. Ward (afterwards Governor of New Jersey) in Springfield, Ill., May 20, 1860, two days after Mr. Lincoln's nomination.
GENERAL JOHN W. GEARY From a photograph taken, in 1866, by Draper and Husted.
MILLARD FILLMORE From a daguerreotype.
CHARLES SUMNER From a daguerreotype.
ROGER B. TANEY From a daguerreotype.
SAMUEL NELSON From a photograph.
ROBERT J. WALKER From a daguerreotype.
FREDERICK P. STANTON From a photograph by Brady.
JOHN CALHOUN From a painting by D.C. Fabronius, after a photograph by Brady.
ANSON BURLINGAME From a photograph by William Shaw.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS From a daguerreotype.
DAVID COLBRETH BRODERICK From a photograph by Brady.
JOHN BROWN From a photograph by J.W. Black & Co.
HOUSE IN WHICH JOHN BROWN WAS BORN, TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT From a photograph lent by Frank B. Sanborn.
CALEB CUSHING From a photograph by Brady.
W.L. YANCEY From a photograph by Cook.
GENERAL JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE From a daguerreotype taken about 1850, lent by Anson Maltby.
FACSIMILE OF LINCOLN'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
JOHN BELL From a photograph by Brady.
GENERAL HENRY A. WISE From a photograph by Brady.
THE WIGWAM AT CHICAGO IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS NOMINATED
GENERAL ROBERT ANDERSON From a photograph by Brady.
JAMES BUCHANAN From a photograph by Brady.
LEWIS CASS From a photograph by Brady.
GENERAL ROBERT TOOMBS From a photograph.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL From a photograph by Brady.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. II
CHAPTER I. JEFFERSON DAVIS ON REBELLION
Civil War in Kansas. Guerrillas dispersed by Colonel Sumner. General P.F. Smith supersedes Sumner. Governor Shannon Removed. Missouri River Blockaded. Jefferson Davis's Instructions on Rebellion. Acting-Governor Woodson Proclaims the Territory in Insurrection. Report of General Smith. John W. Geary Appointed Governor. Inaugural Address. His Military Proclamations and Measures. Colonel Cooke's "Cannon" Argument. Hickory Point Skirmish. Imprisonment of Free State Men. End of Guerrilla War. Removal and Flight of Governor Geary.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by Hay
- 2: Lecompton Constitutional Convention
- 3: THE CHARLESTON CONVENTIONThe Democratic Party
- 4: Cabinet Conferences on Disunion
- 5: The Cass Buchanan Correspondence
- 6: Wrote Sumner to the War Department
- 7: As shown by your letter and its inclosures
- 8: 5 Sidenote Woodson to Cooke
- 9: Either Secretary Woodson or Surveyor General John Calhoun
- 10: That Governor Geary and his party landed at Leavenworth
- 11: The Missouri raid against Lawrence
- 12: Lately captured from the pro slavery men
- 13: The vigorous proceedings of Governor Geary
- 14: Before Governor Geary became conscious
- 15: The Governor invited to Lecompton
- 16: To meet at Bloomington on the 29th of May
- 17: And fought gallantly at the battle of Buena Vista
- 18: Apparently determined to push Bissell to the wall
- 19: Came together at Pittsburgh on Washington's birthday
- 20: Through the famous gold discoveries
- 21: Dayton had not received a majority support
- 22: Forgetting that Douglas had not only begun it
- 23: And that we are therefore disunionists in fact
- 24: Who so loudly stigmatize us as disunionists
- 25: Thus let bygones be bygones
- 26: 3 On the sixteenth ballot Buchanan received 168 votes
- 27: He joined unreservedly in the exciting Senate debates
- 28: Continued his murderous attack till Sumner
- 29: The majority recommended the expulsion of Brooks
- 30: Burlingame accepted the challenge
- 31: The learned chief justice therefore ordered that Somersett
- 32: Others positive laws prohibiting it
- 33: Is Dred Scott a citizen entitled to sue
- 34: Chief Justice Taney and Associate Justices McLean
- 35: The Dred Scott case afforded the occasion for a decision
- 36: Opinion in the Dred Scott case
- 37: Chief Justice Taney read the opinion of the court
- 38: He remarked Sidenote 19 Howard
- 39: This cold and pitiless historical delineation of the bondage
- 40: Why confine our view to colored slavery
- 41: Blair and George Ticknor Curtis
- 42: CHAPTER VDOUGLAS AND LINCOLN ON DRED SCOTT Manifestly
- 43: Lincoln as to the Dred Scott decision
- 44: But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous
- 45: In his opinion in the Dred Scott case
- 46: They denounced Governor Geary in their resolutions
- 47: The cabal was in no mood to be thwarted
- 48: Both Walker and Stanton being from slave States
- 49: This same policy was a few weeks later urged at Topeka
- 50: Where the pro slavery party was strong
- 51: What right had the Governor to intermeddle
- 52: Even under the defective apportionment
- 53: A single precinct in Johnson County
- 54: Sessions were held without a quorum
- 55: Walker declared such a change impossible
- 56: The probable receipt of this letter in Kansas
- 57: For the Lecompton Constitution without slavery
- 58: On December 11 Cass wrote to J
- 59: Testimony before the Covode Committee
- 60: I shall in due time expose that transaction
- 61: At the meeting of Congress in December
- 62: Domestic institutions was defined to mean slavery
- 63: The pro slavery clause will be voted down
- 64: In favor of submitting the constitution to the people
- 65: And rewarded them with Buchanan
- 66: This adoption of the Crittenden Montgomery substitute
- 67: 1 Buchanan to Silliman and others
- 68: Have no rival in his party for his own Senatorial seat
- 69: Partly for his help in defeating the Lecompton iniquity
- 70: Sidenote Lincoln to Crittenden
- 71: Nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out
- 72: In like manner Lincoln should open and close at Freeport
- 73: Sidenote Lincoln Douglas Debates
- 74: Sidenote Lincoln Douglas Debates
- 75: Sidenote Lincoln Douglas Debates
- 76: To abolish the African slave trade
- 77: And I fear the new Springfield speech is worse
- 78: I now say that I will answer his interrogatories
- 79: And Douglas in his reply came to interrogatory number two
- 80: If they adopt unfriendly legislation
- 81: The Senator from Illinois faltered
- 82: That Douglas ought to be reelected
- 83: And doubtless it was so to Lincoln
- 84: 2 douglas's questions and lincoln's answers
- 85: Exclude slavery from its limits
- 86: But between the negro and the crocodile
- 87: That if you repudiate the doctrine of non intervention
- 88: Sidenote Dennison to Trumbull
- 89: 1 Sidenote Colfax to Lincoln
- 90: In which he also defined his position on fusion
- 91: The Ohio Democrats had called Douglas into their canvass
- 92: Shall this soil be planted with slavery
- 93: Not to overthrow the Constitution
- 94: And tanning and speculating in real estate in Ohio
- 95: When the Border Ruffian hostilities broke out
- 96: His explanation to the blacksmith
- 97: Sanborn was a young man of twenty six
- 98: Sidenote Sanborn in Atlantic
- 99: John Brown's son in the Chatham meeting
- 100: He himself broke open the armory gates
- 101: Distant one mile from the armory
- 102: Once more quoting Lincoln's Springfield speech
- 103: What induced the Southampton insurrection
- 104: Following the Lecompton controversy
- 105: Stearns some general conception of them
- 106: Briggs in New York Evening Post
- 107: This affirmation and denial form an issue
- 108: And the threat of death to me to extort my money
- 109: Invasions and insurrections are the rage now
- 110: If we thought slavery right
- 111: Has taken days of labor to verify
- 112: The Congressional slave code proposal
- 113: And his open persecution by the Buchanan Administration
- 114: 3 representing 127 electoral votes
- 115: Yancey was the master spirit of the Charleston Convention
- 116: Yancey put in execution his programme of demand
- 117: And in a high wrought peroration Yancey prophesied
- 118: Or by the indorsement of the Cincinnati platform
- 119: The Charleston Convention formally adjourned
- 120: Other seceders were more impatient
- 121: The party rejected this caucus platform
- 122: The seceders had met at Richmond
- 123: Yancey was conspicuously present
- 124: Its double victory in Congress against Lecompton
- 125: But I do not understand Trumbull and myself to be rivals
- 126: The Chicago Convention met on May 16
- 127: Making that hotel the Seward headquarters
- 128: Not the personal fortunes of Seward
- 129: First by some sharp shooting speeches about credentials
- 130: The reopening of the slave trade
- 131: Michigan seconded the nomination of Seward
- 132: The whole 10 votes of Collamer
- 133: Reelected him United States Senator
- 134: The Constitution devotes the domain to union
- 135: She did not in any wise influence the result
- 136: Which at Baltimore nominated John C
- 137: Lincoln invoked the inviolability of the Constitution
- 138: The Republican Presidential candidate
- 139: And now again in the Presidential
- 140: And the negotiations for a coalition
- 141: Adopting the three electors on the fusion ticket
- 142: And Texas chose Breckinridge electors
- 143: Had prepared capes of black cambric
- 144: Accusations of intentions of disunion
- 145: And threatening secession if it were not accorded
- 146: He says the Governors of North Carolina
- 147: Affiliated with the Democratic party
- 148: History of the Southern Rebellion
- 149: Governor Gist wrote the following confidential letter
- 150: I shall not advise the secession of my State
- 151: 5 was handed me by General Gist
- 152: It is my opinion that Alabama will not secede alone
- 153: I have had a full and free conversation with General Gist
- 154: Secret societies of individuals
- 155: An Assistant Secretary of State
- 156: DEAR RHETT I received your letter this morning
- 157: The price will be two $2 dollars each
- 158: I have just received your letter of the 7th inst
- 159: If the right of secession existed
- 160: Lamar has consented to act accordingly
- 161: Jefferson Davis records that Sidenote Jefferson Davis
- 162: Advocating both secession and insurrection
- 163: The South Carolina Legislature
- 164: And illuminations and bonfires occupied the night
- 165: The veteran Lieutenant General Winfield Scott
- 166: Would have been an invitation to collision and secession
- 167: Forts Moultrie and Sumter in Charleston harbor
- 168: To this Colonel Gardner replied
- 169: Constitute another Confederacy
- 170: Sidenote Anderson to Adjutant General
- 171: Its guns command this work Moultrie
- 172: Sidenote Anderson to Adjutant General
- 173: He desires you to see Colonel Huger
- 174: Colonel Huger was an ordnance officer of the army
- 175: A Cabinet meeting was held as usual at I o'clock
- 176: He thought disunion inevitable
- 177: But the disguised disloyalty of Floyd
- 178: 6 On the question of disunion or secession
- 179: And disunion would be impossible
- 180: The Union has no right to coerce
- 181: Who might lawfully and properly lead either a posse
- 182: By formal ordinances of conventions
- 183: Magrath and his fellow conspirators
- 184: To prevent reenforcement was the vital point
- 185: Buchanan of either approval or dissent
- 186: Sidenote Buchanan to Burnwell
- 187: Not only of treason at Charleston
- 188: Sidenote Buchanan to Commissioners
- 189: This is in conformity to my instructions to Major Buell
- 190: Buchanan retained any sensibility
- 191: Cass had held many offices of distinction
- 192: Says Floyd The President said to him in reply
- 193: Says Sidenote Cass to Buchanan
- 194: Buchanan had been capable of amendment
- 195: Will follow the example of South Carolina
- 196: It looks to absolute submission
- 197: Either through legislation or Constitutional amendments
- 198: Denounced this proposition as a quack nostrum
- 199: They can live and nourish without African slavery
- 200: And fall powerless before its determined opposition
- 201: You own the President of the United States
- 202: Than the friends of compromise
- 203: Florida had taken the initiative
- 204: The Republican members of the House
- 205: We will be mutually willing
- 206: Or dual majority of the senate
- 207: No Congressional legislation about slavery
- 208: Of Indiana Divide Territories
- 209: Together with three fifths representation
- 210: Except upon the extreme alternative of disunion
- 211: Did not disconcert or hinder the secession leaders
- 212: It precedes every ordinance of secession
- 213: One of the signers of this complaint of non action
- 214: Remaining thenceforward till the surrender of Sumter
- 215: Instead of obtaining his reenforcements
- 216: Respectively in charge of Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckney
- 217: Who had returned from the city to Fort Moultrie