THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON; CABINET COUNCILS. FOREIGN ASPECT OF SECESSION. VIRGINIA TRAITORS. THE TRAITORS' MAILS TO BE STOPPED. THE DEFENCE OF WASHINGTON.
April 13, 1861
Page 1, 1021 words
The town was thrown into intense excitement to-night by the report of the commencement of hostilities at Charleston this morning at 4 o'clock. The more so because of the previous news of peace and landing of provisions at Fort Sumpter. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Through all our streets last evening at a late hour the news spread with electrical rapidity that the great contest had at length commenced ten thousand armed rebels in Charleston harbor and its environs commencing an assault on Fort Sumpter, defended by Maj. ANDERSON, of the United States Army, at the head of seventy or eighty men. Everywhere ... [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
THE GOVERNMENT POLICY.; Intentions of the Administration--Plans for the Relief of Fort Sumpter--Necessity for Holding the Forts.
April 13, 1861, Wednesday
Page 4, 1771 words
The public mind is still excited by speculations touching the destination of the military and naval expeditions which have been fitted out and sailed recently from New-York; but most persons have accepted the conclusion that one branch of it, at least, is intended for the reinforcement of Fort Pickens, and the other, probably, for the relief of Fort Sumpter. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
April 13, 1861, Wednesday
Page 4, 1512 words
Hostilities commenced at Charleston about 4 o'clock yesterday morning! The first two guns were fired from Fort Moultrie against Fort Sumpter, when Major ANDERSON immediately replied with three of his barbette guns, and the action soon became general, and continued until it became too dark to operate with certainty, when the firing ceased, to be commenced again at daylight this morning. The dispatches from Charleston, ... [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
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