History of McDonough County, Illinois, together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent individuals, and biographies of the representative citizens, Part 15

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Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Continental Historical Co.
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"While the greater number of the male citizens of Macomb were gone to

Nauvoo, apprehension was felt by the women that an attack might be made on the town, and they would not rest con- tent without a guard every night to give the alarm in case the Mormons ap- peared. James M. Campbell and others agreed to act as guard, and every night about dark would begin their regular patrol. They would remain out until the lights about town were put out and the inhabitants were supposed to be asleep, when they would go home to bed."

A quotation from Fords' excellent hist- ory of the state will close this account of the so-called "Mormon war" in which so many from McDonough county partici- pated. That volume says:

"At last, through the intervention of an anti-Mormon committee of one hundred from Quincy, the Mormons and their al- lies were induced to submit to such terms as the posse chose to dictate, which were that the Mormons should immediately give up their arms to the Quincy com- mittee, and remove from the state.

"The trustees of the church and five of their clerks were permitted to remain for the sale of Mormon property, and the posse were to march in unmolested, and to leave a sufficient force to guarantee the performance of their stipulations.

"Accordingly, the constable's posse marched in with Brockman at their head, consisting of about eight hundred armed men, and six or seven hundred unarmed who had assembled from all the country around, from motives of curiosity, to see the once proud city of Nauvoo humbled, and delivered up to its enemies, and to the domination of a self-constructed and irresponsible power. They proceeded

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into the city slowly and carefully, exam- ining the way for fear of the explosion of a mine, many of which had been made by the Mormons, by burying kegs of powder in the ground, with a man stationed at a distance to pull a string communicating with the trigger of a per- cussion lock affixed to the keg. This kind of contrivance was called by the Mormons a 'hell's half acre.' When the posse arrived in the city, the lead- ers of it erected themselves into a tribu- nal to decide who should be forced away and who remain. Parties were dispatched to hunt for Mormons' arms and for Mormons, and to bring them to judg- ment, where they received their doom from the mouth of Brockman, who then sat a grim and unawed tyrant for the time. As a general rule, the Mormons were ordered to leave within an hour, or two hours; and by rare grace, some of them were allowed until next day, and in a few cases, longer. The treaty spec- ified that the Mormons only should be driven into exile.

"Nothing was said in it concerning the new citizens, who had with the Mor- mons defended the city. But the posse no sooner had obtained possession, than they commenced expelling the new citi- zens. Some of them were ducked into the river, being in one or two cases act- ually baptized in the name of the lead- ers of the mob, others were forcibly driven into the ferry boats to be taken over the river, before the bayonets of armed ruffians; and it is believed that the houses of most of them were broken open and their furniture stolen during their absence. Many of these new set- tlers were strangers in the country from

various parts of the United States, who were attracted there by the low price of property, and they knew but little of previous difficulties, or the merits of the quarrel. They saw with their own eyes that the Mormons were industriously preparing to go away, and they knew of their own knowledge that an effort to expel them with force was gratuitous and unnecessary cruelty. They had been trained, by the states from which they came, to abhor mobs, and to obey the law, and they volunteered their ser- vices under executive authority, to de- fend their town and their property against mob violence, and as they hon- estly believed from distraction. But in this way they were partly mistaken, for although the mob leaders, in the exer- cise of unbridled power, were guilty of many enormities to the person of indi- viduals, and although much personal property was stolen, yet they abstained from materially injuring houses and buildings. The most that was done in this way, was the stealing of the doors and the sash of the windows from the houses by somebody. The anti-Mor- mons allege that they were carried away by the Mormons, and the Mormons aver that the most of them were stolen by the anti-Mormons. Thus ended the Mormon war.

The following is believed to be a com- plete roster of those of the citizens of McDonough county, who were out dur- ing this "unpleasantness":

Colonel :

E. B. Root.

Lieutenant Colonel: Levi Warren.

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Major: V. E. Remington. Surgeon :

Dr. H. G. Ayre. Adjutant: S. McFarland.

Sergeant Major : H. Gilfrey.

Quartermaster Sergeants:

Thomas Gilfrey, William Duncan.

Wagoner: Joseph Shute.

Captains:

Charles Creel,

James M. Wilson,

A. P. Smith,

Chas. W. Waddill,

W. S. Hendricks.

Vandever Banks,

Samuel C. Hogan,

William I. Pace,

F. D. Lipe,

B. Maxwell, .

John Long,

W. F. Blandin,

Thomas Davis.

J. L. N. Hall.

Lieutenants :

Joseph Crawford,

Peter McClure,

J. L. Cross,

I. C. Webb,

Harry R. Holden,

John Baker,

Thomas Shippey,

John Smith,

John R. Edmonston,

H. H. Burr,

Milton L. Archer,

Patrick Laughlin,

Thomas Mustain,

Richard Brightwell,

William Edmonston, I. L. Twyman,

James S. Palmer,

Absolom Parker, Bethel Owen,

William B. Clarke, Philetus Rice,

J. C. D. Carmack,

Jonathan L. Berry,

Andrew Alison, John C. Webb,

George C. Vest,

V. M. Hardin, A. Dorothy,

Perry Langford,

Harrison Hungate,

Joseph P. Gates.

Privates:

Henry Thompson, John Creel,

John W. Clarke,

G. E. Robinson,

Silas Creel, David Hogsett,

William, Brooking E. Brooking,

Levi Hamilton, James R. Simpson,

Ross Penan,

James Kepple, Hugh Ervin,

D. M. Crabb,

William Hamilton,

Thomas Davis,

George Nichols,

J. H. Michael,

Valentine Clayton,

R. McClure,

William Stevens,

John Crawford,

Andrew Walker,

Ephraim Banning, P. Hamilton,

D. R. Hamilton, W. M. McCartney, Wiley M. Sloan,

George Boothe, William Stewart,

O. H. Casley,

C. W. Dunsworth,

Lewis Mourning,

Richard Musson,

Joseph Riley,

Thomas J. Hunt,

"William Boyd,

Edmond Bean,

Thomas White,

J. J. Lower,

James Chamberlain, Isaac Bacon,

William Stroud,

Eliphate Jarvis,

J. L. Cross,

Wm. B. Walker,

J. M. Head,

J. N. Clark,

R. J. Scott,

John S. Wilson,

H. H. McGee,

James Dye,

Stephen White,

W. W. Clayton, Silas Parker,

James Stroud,

James Wilson,

John Rollins,

J. W. Walker, Samuel McCray, George Head,

A. G. Hainline,

Jacob Stickle,

J. Mitchell,

G. W. Eyres,

J. H. Head,

Harper McCandless, Jolın S. Campbell, John Snapp, . Jonathan Palmer, Garret Bonham, G. Vanhowten, George W. Wade, Durham Creel, Nicholas Bowman, Calvin Canote, Thomas K. Waddle, Charles Kepple, John Bishop, John Ştokes, John M. Jackson, Michael Harris,

S. A. Hunt, Patrick Aber,

A. Stephens,

Shad Goan, Peter Dye,

Luke Prentice,

Levi Done,

G. S. Hainline,

G. W. Head, William B. Head, Robert Garheart, A. J. Walker, , Eli Campbell, William Lower, Samuel M. Not,

A. Fulkerson, William B. Clarke,

A. D. McBride, George Painter, Samuel Bland, J. B. Stapp, Orin Chatterton, Michael Youst,

Nathan Hainline,

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. Samuel Clarke,

Nelson Montgomery, S. H. Gillihan, C. W. Fulkerson, Hugh McDonough, David Badger, Allen Porter, Elias Clem, Jonathan Parker, Asa Decker, Andrew Jackson, B. Whittington, William Badger, John C. Conants, Ambrose G. Owen, Lewis Scalf, Charles Jackson, David Kepple. John Badger, William Grafton, Matthew Framel, B. B. Jackson, D. Boyd, John Twidwell, Josiah Ralston, Isaac Garrett, Isaac Smith, H. Melton, Bird Smith,

Joseph D. Wear,

Andrew D. Wear, Augustus Lillard, David Jenkins, John Kennedy, John Hill,

Nicholas Jarvis, Isaac Welch,

V. A. Caldwell, J. R. Welch, H. J. Averill, William Carmack, William Walker, N. B. Wooley, Othias DeHaven, Jessie Hainline, John Logan, Jr., Henry Martin, William Hardesty, James Seybold, E. T. Monarch, Jacob Hutchinson, C. C. Hungate,

Frank Clarke,

William Owens,

Thomas Jackson, William Gibson,

C. McDonough, Nathaniel Barker,

James Moore, George Crossier, Peter McDonough, R. G. King, Roswell Tyrrell,

Ladwick Courier, C. G. Gilchrist, William Ervin, James Rigdon, Isham Rigdon, John Smith, H. Garrett,

Henry Garrett, Allen Melton, John B. Wear, W. Melton,

Nathan Stephens, James Hendricks, Reuben Alexander,

Solomon Kennedy,

Levi Sawyer, Isaac Howell, N. C. Averill, G. W. Welch, Jefferson Welch, John James, Moses Stookey, Rufus Botts,

James Williams, James Dorothy, Hiram Hainline, William Martin, Joshua White, James Milsaps,

Henry H. Monarch, Isaac Bogart,

Jacob Keithley, A. G. McCord,

William McCord,

James Jarvis,

Rolly Martin,

Moses Haskins,

John Caldwell,

Oliver C. Smith,

Robert Andrews, James F. Greenup, Anson Richardson, William Waddle,

Cyrus Wing,

Clem Reddick,

James McKee,

John W. Lane,

James McCurdy,

Elam Chockley,

Benjamin Chockley,

Isom J. David,

Thomas Toland,

Randolph Hall,

John Seward,

D. Sandridge, John P. Kinkade,

Thomas Bailey,

George W. Shultz, James H. Atkinson, Jerry Sullivan, John Allison,

Samuel Pollock,

William Henley, Benjamin Miller, Gholson Lane,

Jesse Beck,

William Beck,

William Sullivan,

James Gibson,

Robert Smithers,

Johnson Downer, Lewis Springer, Travis Miller,

J. J. Wyatt, B. T. Gibson,

Wesley Harlan,

Robert Black,

William B. Peak, David Later,

James Rasor, Edmond Naylor,

Hugh Black, Samnel McClure,

Robert L. Dark,

Morton Pringle, D. C. Riggs, William H. Pringle,

N. Edmondson,

Isaac McCowen,

Benjamin Stephen, Robert Barber,

John Friend, A. Edmondson,

S. M. C. Pennington, . Henry W. Foster,

Thomas Richardson, Martin Miles,

Robert Comer,

James Fulton,

Jonas Hushaw,

Watson Chockley,

Richard Chockley,

William Toland, George Woods,

Walter Scott, Edmond Cave, James Walker,

Nelson Campbell,

T. W. Greenup, Alfred Ripitow,

Jesse Jeanıs, Elisha Dungan

G. W. Coker, Alfred Gibson, William Rice, John Hushaw,

Joel Pennington, F. C. Tomberlin, A. J. Cockeram, Nathan Hayes,

Jeremiah Sullivan,

William S. Bailey, Edmond Barber, John McCormick, Shad. Campbell,

Thomas Dungan,

Slocum Wooley, Charles Martin, Beta Haskins,

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George W, Mitchell, Wm. W. McCormick,

Francis Wayland,

Zoel Wayland,

Francis Rice,

Thomas Allison,

Andrew Allison,

G. C. Lane,

Anderson Cannon,

Henry Perry,

Jesse Neece, Alexander Provine, Jacob Massingill,

Francis McSpirit,

Joseplı Bailey, Elijah Stepliens,

Israel Camp, Jr.,

John Barrett,

William J. Despain,

William Gahagan,

Jonathan Comar,

T. B. McCormick,

Nathan Scott, William Lovely,

John E. Jackson, George W. Neece,

L. M. Hobart,

James Perry,

George Hume,

D. F. Martin,

G. G. Guy,

J. Rollins,

William Stickle,

Thomas J. Caldwell,

B J. Welch, Harry Carmack.

H. S. Head,

William D. Mustain, Robert Kellison,

Wm. J. Epperson, E. F. Randall,

James P. Birtland, C. A. Brown,

Joseph Duncan,

Simeon Everett, John Hall, John L. Charter, Redmond Grigsby, David Alton,

Hugh Conner,

William Moss,

Philetus Knight,

John Bowman,

Samuel Dark,

J. Q. McClure, Robert Hall, William Parks, Peter Riggs,

Nimrod Duskill,

James C. Archer,

Jacob Waimac,

William T. Archer,

William W. Wilson, A. J. Edmonston,

William Owens,

Samuel Wilsoh, Hugh B. Smiley,

John Monk,

N. B. Hardin, Sanford Past, Joseph Overton,

Jolın Ledgerwood, J. H. Hughes,

Jolın Fletcher,

Botson Sey bold,

J. H. Baker, Reuben Harris,

D. Bristow, Wesley Langford, H. Mayhew,

Robert Dorothy,

Lewis Past, Lorenzo Twichell, S. Stewart, William Scott,

William Humbert,

Jolın W. Fugate,

Jacob Morgan,

Thomas Shoopman,

Edward Dixon,

B. B. Edmondson,

Thomas E, Smedley, J. J. Smedley,

Caleb Husted,

John Bundridge,

H. V. Craig,

Samuel Calvin,

Robert Clugston,

G. W. Shoopmanı, John Wilson, Jr., C. Pruit, J. C. Vawter, Russell Riggs,

John Nankeville,

Charles Patrick,

Nathan Dunsworth,

Thomas Hunt,

Arch. Holstein,

Washington Owens,

Robert McCumsey, John Patrick, John Ferguson, Robert Archer, G. A. Tayl, George Venard, John B. Case,

Samuel Dunlap, James Grigsby, John Vance,

Alva Alton,

John Duncan,

Alex. McCullin, Norman Davis,

C. A. Lawson,

N. Montgomery,

. .. TIVI

Allen Bland, Wm. Walker, B. R. Hampton, Martin Miles. Hiram Bellew,

James D. Eads, Nathan Ferris, Thomas Speaks, William E. Duncan, William Wilson, -H. G. Woodside, Francis McKay, Henry Dorothy, Silas Grigsby, Henry Alton, John Hagerty, Geoge Bughman,

Jonathan Charter, B. B. Head,

Squire Charter,

A. L. Bryant, Ephraim Hammer, John T. Mustain. James Ward, William Grigsby,

Isaac Harris John Huston, John L. Gordon, John Gilfrey, Sr., John T. Gilfrey,

John I. Foster, John Crisp,

James McPeters,

J. J. Mathews, William Ellis,

N. Herrin, G. A. Farwell,

Samuel Haney, B. Past, Jasper Twichell, G. Hainline, John Purdy, Jacob Humbert, Smith Haines, A. C. Bristow, Daniel Duncan, Sylvester Ruddle, Preston Anderson, James Peak,

J. E Lansdown,

A. H. Rutledge,

David Scott,

Joseph Haines,

Isaac Fugate,

Jacob S. Matthews, B. Mason, Jolın G. Stoneking,

John McCoy, Carroll Lane,

William Venard, William T. Wells, William Shannon, John E. Riggs,

William Thompson, ·M. C. Archer, James Dunsworth, Amos Gibson,

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. T. B. Maury,

Wesley Freeland,

William Ervin,

Merritt A. Russell, G. W. Smith,

P. H. Walker, Wm. L. Broaddus, Joseph Long,

R. M. Bonham, James Walker, Richard Rowley, Daniel D. Rall,

Thomas McElrath,

James Anderson,

Logan Kyle,

J. P. Head,

James Cannon, David Lawson,

S. C. Watson,

Manva Perry,

Wm. H. Randolph,

John Harrow,

Samuel McKamy,

J. P. Updegraff, John Lowry,

T. J. Beard,

J. H. Updegraff,

Theodore Laughlin,

Andrew Lewis,

J. E. Wyne, Milton Sweeney,

Robert H. Broaddus,

Wm. F. McCandless,

B. F. Martin,

John L. Anderson,

R. F. Anderson,

Joseph Bailey,

N. McElrath,

C. M. Duffee,

W. H. Kyle,

Thomas Adcock,

J. W. McDonald,

W. Courtwright,

William S. Hail,

G. W. Watt,

O.C. Cannon,

R. A. Brazelton,

William H. Phelps,

Henry Towls, Martin Read,

Daniel Sullivan,

John M. Sullivan.

William B. Gordon,

J. B. McCartney,

John Wiley,

C. W. Dallam,

Marshall Rogers,

Charles Dunn,

R. Garrett,

Adonijah Hungate.

CHAPTER IX.

THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

The institution of slavery was always | of a conciliatory character were passed, a source of trouble between the free and no attempt was made to carry their threats into execution. Finally came the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the adoption of a measure known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill. This bill opened certain territory to slavery, which, under the former act, was forever to be free. About the time of the passage of this act, the whig party was in a state of dissolution, and the great body of that party, together with certain democrats who were opposed to the Kansas-Ne- slave-holding states. The latter were always troubled with the thought that the former would encroach upon their rights, and nothing could be done to shake this belief. Compromise meas- ures from time to time were adopted to settle the vexed question of slavery, but the fears of the slaveholders were only allayed for a short time. Threats of secession were often made by the slave- holding states, but as soon as measures

R. H. Broaddus, Joshua Conrad, Thomas Pickett,

S. S. Whitmire,

J. M. Martin,

Robert Cannon,

J. C. Roberts, James B. Kyle, James Martin,

W. H. Kendrick,

J. O. C. Wilson,

Abner Walker,

Charles Chandler,

Michael Martin,

T. M. Luster,

Gowan DeCamp, Daniel Courtwright,

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braska bill, united, thus forming a new party to which was given the name of republican, having for its object the pre- vention of the further extension of sla- very. The people of the south imagined they saw in this new party not only an organized effort to prevent the extension of slavery, but one that would eventu- ally be used to destroy slavery in those states in which it already existed.

In 1860, four presidential tickets were in the field. Abraham Lincoln was the candidate of the republicans, Stephen A. Douglas of the national democrat, John C. Breckenridge of the pro-slavery interests, and John Bell of the union. The union party was composed princi- pally of those who had previously affili- ated with the American or know-noth- ing party. Early in the campaign there were threats of secession and disunion in case of the election of Abraham Lin- coln, but the people were so accustomed to southern bravado that little heed- was given to the bluster.

On the 20th of December, 1860,South Carolina, by a convention of delegates, declared "that the union now existing between South Carolina and the other states of North America is dissolved, and that the state of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the earth as a free, sovereign and independent state, with full power to levy war and conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do."

On the 24th Gov. Pickens issued a proclamation declaring that "South Carolina is, and has a right to be, a free and independent state, and as such has

a right to levy war, conclude peace, and do all acts whatever that rightfully ap- pertain to a free and independent state."

On the 26th Major Anderson evacuated Fort Moultrie and occupied Fort Sum- ter. Two days previously he wrote President Buchanan's secretary of war, John B. Floyd, as follows:

"When I inform you that my garrison consists of only 60 effective men, and that we are in very indifferent works, the walls of which are only fourteen feet high; and that we have within 160 yards of our walls, sand hills which command our works and which afford admirable sites for batteries and the finest coverts for sharp-shooters; and that besides this there are numerous houses, some of them within pistol shot, and you will at once see that if attacked in force, headed by any one but a simpleton, there is scarcely a posibility of our being able to hold out long enough for our friends to come to our succor."

His appeals for re-inforcements were seconded by General Scott, but unheeded by President Buchanan, and entirely ignored by Secretary of War Floyd.

On the 28th South Carolina troops occupied Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, and hoisted the palmetto flag on the ramparts. On the 29th John B. Floyd resigned his place in Buchanan's cabinet, charging that the president in refusing to remove Major Anderson from Charleston Harbor, designed to plunge the country into civil war, and added: "I cannot consent to be the agent of such a calamity." On the same day the South Carolina commissioners presented their official credentials at Washington, which, on the next day, were declined.

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On the second day of January, 1861, Georgia declared for secession,and Geor- gia troops took possession of the United States arsenal in Augusta, and Forts Pulaski and Jackson.

Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, seized the forts at Beaufort and Wilmington and the arsenal at Fayetteville. On the evening of the 4th, the Alabama and Mississippi delegations in congress tele- graphed the conventions of their respec- tive states to secede, telling them that there was no prospect of a satisfactory adjustment.

On the 7th the conventions of Ala- bama, Mississippi and Tennessee met in secession conclave. Secretary Thomp- son resigned his seat in the cabinet on the 9th, on the ground that, contrary to promises, troops had been sent to Major Anderson. On the same day, the Star of the West, carrying supplies and rein- forcements to Major Anderson, with her flag at her mast-head, was fired into from Morris Island, and obeying instructions turned homeward, leaving Fort Sumter and its gallant little band of heroes to the mercy of the rebels and traitors. On the same day, also, the ordinance of secession passed the Mississippi conven- tion. Florida adopted an ordinance of secession on the 10th, and Alabama on the 11th. On the latter day the rebels seized the arsenal at Baton Rouge, and Forts St. Philip and' Jackson, at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and Fort Pike at the entrance of Lake Pontchar- train. Pensacola navy yard and Fort Barrancas were surrendered to rebel . troops by Colonel Armstrong on the 13th. Lieutenant Slemmer, who had drawn his command from Fort McRae to Fort

Pickens, defied Armstrong's orders and announced his intention to "hold the fort" at all hazards, The Georgia con- vention adopted an ordinance of seces- sion on the 19th. On the following day Lieutenant Slemmer was besieged by a thousand "allied troops" at Fort Pick- ens. Louisiana adopted an ordinance of secession on the 25th. On the 1st of February the rebels seized the United States mint and custom house at New Orleans. The peace convention assem- bled at Washington on the 4th, but ad- journed without doing anything to quiet the disturbed elements. On the 9th a provisional constitution was adopted at Montgomery, Alabama, it being the con- stitution of the United States "re-con- structed" to suit their purposes. Jeffer- son Davis, of Mississippi, was chosen president, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, vice-president, of the "con- federate states of North America." Jefferson Davis was inaugurated on the 18th, and on the 25th it

was s learned that General Twiggs, commanding the department of Tex- as, had basely betrayed his trust and had surrendered all the military posts, ammunition and arms to the Texas authorities.

Abraham Lincoln, was inaugurated March 4, 1861, in front of the capitol, the ceremonies being witnessed by a vast concourse of people. Before taking the oath, Mr. Lincoln pronounced in a clear, ringing voice his inaugural address, to hear which there was an almost painful solicitude; to read which the whole Amer- ican people and civilized world awaited with irrepressible anxiety. With that address and the administration of the

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oath of office, the people were assured. All doubt, if any had previously existed, was removed. In the hands of Abraham Lincoln, the people's president, and him- self of the people, the government was safe.

Traitors were still busy plotting and planning. Troops were mustering in all the seceded states. On Friday, April 12, the surrender of Fort Sumpter, with its garrison of sixty effective men, was da- manded and bravely refused by the gal- lant Robert Anderson, the heroic com- mander. Fire was at once opened on the almost helpless garrison by the rebel forces, numbering several thousands. Resistence for any length of time was useless, and at last, out of ammunition and seared and scorched by flames from their burning quarters, the little band of heroic men were compelled to give up, and the national colors were hauled down and by traitors hands were trailed in the dust, the dirt and the mire not defiling them half as much as the Judas touch of arrant rebels. On Sunday morning, the 14th, the news of the surrender was received in all the principal cities of the union. That was all, but that was enough. A day later when the news was confirmed and spread throughout the country, the patriotic people of the north were roused from their dreams of the future-from undertakings half completed- and made to realize that behind that mob there was a dark, deep and well organized purpose to destroy the government, rend the union in twain, and out of its ruins erect a slave oligarchy; wherein no one would dare question their right to hold in bond- age the sons and daughters of men whose skins were black. Their dreams of the

future-their plans for the establishment of an independent confederacy-were doomed from their inception to sad and bitter disappointment. Everywhere north of Mason and Dixon's line-the home of the freemen-the voice of Prov- idence was heard.

"Draw forth your million blades as one; Complete the battle now begun; God fights witli ye, and overhead Floats the dear banner of your dead.

They, and the glories of the past,

The future, dawning dim and vast,

And all the holiest lopes of man, Are beaming triumphant in your van.

"Slow to resolve, be swift to do; Teach ye the False, how fights the True; How buckled perfidy shall feel,

In her black heart the Patriot's steel ; How sure the bolt that Justice wings ; How weak the arm a traitor brings; How mighty they who steadfast stand, For freedom's flag and freedom's land."

On Monday, April 15, President Lin- coln issued the following proclamation:

WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have for some time past, and are now, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the states of South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mis- sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals; now, therefore, I, Abra- ham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power in ine vested by the consti- tution and the laws, have thought to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the sev- eral states of the Union, to the number of seven- ty-five thousand, in order to suppress said com- binations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed.

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History of McDonough County, Illinois, together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent individuals, and biographies of the representative citizens, Part 15

Author: Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Continental Historical Co. Number of Pages: 1150

Author:
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Continental Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1150