Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-16
can nomination a, Chicago. The Dem.


ocratic conventions met at Baltimore
according 20 adjournment. There Was
a stormy time. large number seeded,
and on June q, 1850. two tickets we're
nominated. The regulars nominated
Douglas ard Fitzpatrick, and the Sc
ceders selected Breckinridge and Lane.
Afterward. Fitzpatrick declining Her
schel V. Johnson was substituted. There
were thus placed four presidential tick
cts in the field. The Republicans were
united, the Democrats divided. The
campaign was intensely bitter. Threats
were heard from the South that no Re
publican President should occnpy
the White House, and on dc
tober 18th, eleven days before cleo
ton, the politicians of south Caro-
lima resolved upon the secession Of
that State should Lincoln and Hamlin
be elected. This occurred November o.
/ lsGO. and the next day palmetto II .gs
yer. unfurled in Charleston. Three
| days afterward the two Senators from
South Carolina resigned their seats, ana
| November 18th the State Legislature
| called a Secession convention. EycIt-
ing events followed in quick succession.
Congress convened December 3. lo'O.
Buchanan's cabinet went to pieces.
Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treas
ury, resigned and was succeeded by
Thomas. Of Maryland. Lewis Cas-,
Secretary of State, followed suit and
was replaced py Jere Black, whose va,
cancy as Attorney General was filed by
Edwin NJ. Stanton. Then on Decen-
Der 70, 1850. South Carolina pass, d or
dnances of secession. Lawless acts
succeeded. Fort Moultrie, in Charles
ton harbor, was seized BY the rebels
also the government buildings ia the
CITY. Floyd, Secretaryof War. resigned
and was succeeded by Holt, Of Ken
tusky. Forts Pulaski and jackson and
Fort Morgan were captured. The
steamer Star Of the West, en- route with
supplies to Fort Sumter, was fired upon
and driven to sea The United States
arsenal at CEattahoochie and Fort Ma
rion at Saint Augustine, Fla, were
seized, and also the arsenal at Fayette.
vile, NJ c. Jacob Thompson, Secre
tary of the Interior, resigned Eventi
multiplied with startling rapidity. The
other seeding States fell into line as
follows: Mississippi, January ., 1851
Florida, January 10, 1861 {: Alabama
) January IL, 1861 Georgia, January -
1861 Louisiana, January ", 1861
Texas, February /, 1861, and on the stt
of February. 1861, Il Confederate gov
eminent was formed at Montgomery
! Ala, of which on the following day JEFF
Davis and Alex. II. Stephens were
elected Pr, sident and Vice President.
On Feb. II. 1861, Abraham LincolI
left his home at Springfield, ILL.,, FL
route tn Washington, and passing
through Baltimore by stealth, arrived
there on the I'D. Before his arriya
jeff Davis had been inaugurated a:
President of the Southern Confederac,
, and the forts and forces of the Cuitet
States i'll Texas surrendered by Genera
Twlegs, who was suHmarIy dismiss {
on receipt of the news. On tie ith da,
Of March, 1861. Abraham Lincoln anC
Hannibal Hnmlin were iuaugurated
On the 9Th Cabinet WAS formed. from
which time until the date of capture OF
Fort Sumter the whole Nation was in .
tremor of expectation. MANY arm,
; and navy officers resigned their com
maids and commissions. The Con
federate Government sent commi> sion
ers Ia Washington to treat for se para
ton, who were refused recognition b,
the State Department. The Confede
rate Constitution was adopted Boil
TOombs, of Georgia, was expelled from
the United States Senate, and Fort
Sumter was bombarded. When Presi
dent Lincoln took the oath of oiiic .
seven States had formally seeded from
the Union. Our ships were Dispersed
in foreign waters. The mai portion
OF the arms and military stores had
been sent to Southern arsennls and had
been captured by the seoessionists
The Treasury was depleted. The army
was skeleton. its officers were Target,
from the = nth and many foreswort
themselves and took up arms against
the United States. But the Presiden,
was firm. On his inauguration he had
tsaid: Is take the official oath toda,
with no mental reservation. / hold
that in the contemplation of universal
law and of the Constitution. the union
of these States is perpetual. 1t is safe
to assert that no government proper
ever had "a provision in Its org mic law
for its own termination" To the en-.
forcement of these principles the powe,
of the Government was at once direct
ed. beginning with the call for troops
a. noted at the commencement of this
brief retrospect. A month later. Viz
ginis, Arkansas. tennessee and North
Carolina had seeded from tie Union
and n great conflict had become in
evitable.
kILLrD BY THE CARs,-Another link
Was yesterday added to the long chain
of serious casualties and accidents that
has extended through this community
of late, the victim this tune being Jos.
PAYNE. Young man aged about twenty
tive years. PAYNE WAS a coal miner by
occupation. and for some time past has
been employed at Carbonado. He re
Gently visited Renton. aud yesterday.
while under the influence of liquor. at
tempted 10 beard passing coal train
| bound for Seattle. He missed his foot
ing and tell headlone under the loaded