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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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being fired upon, turned back. Very boastfulthe language of the Charleston Mercury the next morning: Wewould not exchange or recall that blow for millions. It has wiped outhalf a century of scorn and outrage. The decree has gone forth. Uponeach acre of the peaceful soil of the South armed men will spring up asthe sound breaks upon their ears. Secession newspapers were sayingthat the South never would submit to Republican rule—Lincoln wouldnot be allowed to take his seat. In one of the committee-rooms of the Capitol at Washington therewas a secret midnight meeting of the Senators from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, at which it was re-isei^ solved to seize all the forts along the southern coast, with all the arsenals, and to urge the Southern States to follow SouthCarolina and secede from the Union. Governor Brown, of Georgia,thereupon ordered a military company to take possession of Fort Pu-laski. A company went up the Mississippi from N^ew Orleans, and
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THE ELECTION. 215 took possession of the arsenal at Baton Eouge. In all the seaports theSecessionists seized the revenue-cutters. The new Secretary of theTreasury, John Adams Dix, sent Mr. Jones to New Orleans with anorder to Captain Breshwood, commanding the revenue-cutter there, tosail to New York. Breshwood was a Secessionist, and prepared to hauldown the Stars and Stripes and turn the vessel over to the Governor ofthe State. This the despatch sent by Mr, Dix : If any man attemjAs to haul doicn the American flag, shoot him on the spot. The people of the Northern States had been stupefied by the suc-cession of events. They had seen the Union crumbling to pieces—theSecessionists having everything their own way, without a word of pro-test from President Buchanan or anybody else connected with the Ad-ministration. The despatch awakened intense enthusiasm for main-taining the honor of the countrys flag. Florida was the first of the States (January 12, 1861) to followSouth Carolina out

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