January 5, 1861

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HARPER'S WEEKLY.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1861.
THE ABANDONMENT OF FORT MOULTRIE.

THE country is thrown into a state of great excitement by the intelligence that, on Christmas night, the gallant Major ANDERSON, commanding the United States force at FORT MOULTRIE, abandoned that fort, and removed all his command to FORT SUMTER. The guns at FORT MOULTRIE have been spiked, and the gun-carriages burned. FORT SUMTER IS a work of great strength, and, with the force now in it, commanded as it is, can be held securely against any army that South Carolina can bring against it ...

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-harpers-jan-5/harpers-weekly-1861_Page1.htm

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1. Richmond Daily Dispatch (January 5, 1861)

Real Estate and Hiring Agent,
office corner Wail and Franklin streets, opposite
Dickinson, Hill & Co.,
Richmond, Virginia.

The subscriber begs to return his acknowledgments to his friends and patrons for their favors daring the past six years, and would inform them that he still continues the business of Hiring Out Negroes, Renting Out Houses, Collecting Claims, and all business pertaining to a General Agency, to all of which be gives his personal attention.

Parties in the country who may entrust the hiring of their Negroes to him. may rest assured of every attention being paid to getting them none other but good homes and the best prices, and in the event of sickness, the best Medical and Personal attention shall always be supplied. He has also a large, comfortable apartment, connected with his office, where those servants who are not provided with places to stay at night during the hiring, may remain, with a good fire, free of charge.

Negroes for hire the coming year, had better be sent in to me as early after Christmas as possible ...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2006.05.0185

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6. Forts Morgan and Gaines

... As Alabama politicians prepared to debate secession, the state militia seized Fort Morgan on January 5, 1861 ... Whereas construction on Fort Gaines was resumed in 1857, <Fort Gaines> was incomplete when Alabama state militia seized it on January 5, 1861, in anticipation of the state seceding from the Union ...

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1800

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2. How little the vast divide in American regional politics has changed in 150 years.

Thanks for pointing that out.

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3. Catskill Examiner

THE EXAMINER
Catskill, NY, January 5, 1861

Our National Troubles

Advices are of a more encouraging character. The President shows signs of shaking off the traitors who have used him. Major Anderson is to be allowed to remain at Fort Sumter, and is to be reinforced. Secretary Floyd resigned Dec. 29. Secretary Holt, a union man, acts in his place. The president has informed the South Carolina Commissioners that they cannot be received or treated in any other capacity than as Commissioners from one of the States of the Union. Two vessels of war lying at Norfolk have been ordered to be in readiness. The Collector at Charleston having resigned, the President appointed a citizen of New York to the place, but the Democratic Senators refused to go into Executive Session to consider the appointment.

The military of the District of Columbia is to immediately put on a war footing. The latest rumors are to the effect that something may yet be effected by Congress in the way of compromise ...

http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2011/01/05/registerstar/columnists/civil_war_reporter/doc4d2356869aa05824830066.txt

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7. Please note, The term "President" meant Buchanan, Lincoln was NOT President till 3/4/1861

Just a note that the above was the act of President Buchanan NOT Lincoln for Lincoln would not assume the Presidency till March 4, 1861

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4. Star of the West

At the last minute General Winfield Scott substitutes the Star of the West, a New York based merchant marine vessel for the Brooklyn, a heavily armed and reinforced sloop ordered to sail to Fort Sumter to resupply the federal outpost ...

http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Star_of_the_West

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5. Opening remarks of the president of the Florida convention

Upon taking the Chair, the President made the following address:

Gentlemen: I feel very sensibly the honor you have done me in calling me to preside over your deliberations ...

... Our Government — the inheritance from a noble ancestry — the greatest achievement of human Wisdom, made to secure to their posterity the Rights and Liberties purchased with their blood, is crumbling into ruins. Every day and almost every hour brings intelligence confirming the opinion that its dissolution is at hand. One State — one of the time-honored Thirteen — has withdrawn the powers granted in the Constitution which constituted her a member of the Union, and she is now from under the political power of the Government ...

Why all this? The story is soon told ...

At the South, and with our People of course, slavery is the element of all value, and a destruction of that destroys all that is property ...

http://gathkinsons.net/sesqui/?p=1710