Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
FIFTY YEARS ago
IN THE STAR

0As u AAA ~ Il AAAN
The situation at Charleston remained
unchanged. with Maj. Anderson occupy
ing Fort Sumter with the
desperate garrison he had trans
Maoerroe 1erred from Fort Moul-
trie and with the govern
ment making no further attempt to re-
inforce him. Meanwhile the more radical
secession1sts of South Carolina were urg-
ing vigorous action to GUST the repre-
sentative of the United States from his
position. In The Star Of January IS,
1851, is the following:
1.-The Charleston Mercury is now daily
engaged i'll melting South Cardinals revo-
lutionary authorities to assault Fort Sum
ter at any possible sacrifice Of human
life avowediy to inilame the people Of
Virginia to elect dsunion majority on
the Attn proxlmo to their state convention.
Jnsolently> abusing Virginia for tagging
in the race OF treason, 1t proclaims that
the only. eApedient for whipping her up to
the. work remaining is to create 4 whirl-
Wihd or excitement by Immediately in
auSufatins q bloody revolution-not the
peaceful and constitutional secession re-
Gently prated about-under the influence
OF which majority of Nirginia's citi-
zens may be induced madly to hitch their
state on to South Cardinals tail. There
Is great danger that Gov. Pickens and
his advisers may succumb within three
days to these appeals of the Mercury.
lnsomuch as 1t Is hourly becoming posi-
tiseiy certain that If the border non
slave holding states nominate conserva-
tive men 10 the Washington consultation
TO come off on the 4th proximo in time
Tor the tact TO become known throughout
Virginia before that day, the disunionists
will be Overwhelmingly routed in Vir-
ginia 5 election, to be certainly follow ed
by their inSlorious rout on the 9th in
Tennessee, on the 18th in Missouri, on
me Ie.h IN arkansas, and on the 2lst in
North Carolina. These results accom-
pilshed by the people Of those states, and
in two months the dislinion chief conspir-
ators and their aiders and abettors will
pc as odlous to the people everywhere
out of South Carolina as ever Aaron Burr
was to the men Of his day.
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The secession Of Louisiana was accom-
plished by legislative means on the 26th
OF January and the news
Louisiana was printed in The Star
caoa..;o, of January -, as follows,
oo0oAon' the details being Of inter-
est. owing to the Formally with which
the separation from the Union was de-
clared by the state convention:
The delay ordinance, moved to be sub
stituted for the. secession ordinance re-
ported by the committee of fifteen, was
voted down by an immense majority.
Commissioners Manning of South Caro-
lima and Winston of Alabama made elo-
In, fox 80 80
secession There was an animated de-
bate last night on the resolution for sub
hitting the secession ordinance for rati-
tication to the people. The advocates of
immediate secession abstained from all
debate.
THE vote Oh submitting the ordinance
to the people was taken this morning
ayes 45, nays 81. The debate closed and
a vote was ordered. The galleries
and lobbies were intensely crowded and
deathlike stiffness prevailed. On the
call of the roll many members were In
tears. The clerk announced the vote
ayes liz. nays 11-and tho President de-
clared Louisiana a free and sovereign
republic. Capt Allen then entered the
convention with a pelican flag accom-
panied by Gov. Moore and staff, and put
the flag in the hands Of the presiden,
amid tremendous excitement. A solemn
guns We're fired. The convention adj
journed to meet at New Orleans on the
Goth instant. Before the convention ad-
journed the resolution accompanying the
ordinance, declaring the right of free nav
igation of the Mississippi river and trib-
utaries from all friendly states and the
right of egress and ingress to boats OF
the Mississippi by all friendly states AND
powers, passed unanimously. 4 gold per
was given to each member with which
~ ordinance
While the secession movement in the
| south was progressing the Union senti-
ment in the north was
| Milwaukee being strengthened by the
rr:4 reports from the southern
oo'''' states. Visitors to Wash
| inston from northern communities were
| deeply impressed with the gravity OF the
situation, as the following paragraph ir
| The Star of January 80, 1861. indicates:
1.-The delegation Of business men from
the Milwaukee eNcursionists to Philadel-
| ps1ia, having in their tour embraced
| Washington city, met at Wizards Hote
Monday and adopted the following pre-
| amble and resolution:
Whereas since our visit to this city
we have been more SenSlOly impressed
than ever before of the impending crisis
| in the affairs of our country, and lovers
os our government and friends of the
| Union, and without claiming more than
proper degree of patriotism, be it there
| fore
| Resolved, That we owe a higher al
| legiance to our country than to any mere
party PLATFORM: and while we represent
all the political parties which took part
| in the late presidential contest and q
| large majority of us were the support
erS of the successful candidate. we ear
nestly invoke the senators and represent
| atives in Congress from the state OF
/ Wisconsin to sink at this time partisan
| pre- judice for the sake of the Union. "
"There can be no doubt" says The
Star of February >, 1851, of the truth
OF the seizure Of the New
| Million Orleans mint and custom
se;zed house by the Louisiana rev,
oe1zeu' olutionists, that comes this
morning by telegraph. Today the Treas
urv Department was notified by Adams
& Co.'S express that a. ]. Guirot. the
| Superintendent of the New Orleans min,
and assistant United States treasurer
there, had refused TO pay draft of the
department for 100000, placed in their
hands for transfer to Philadelphia. 1t is