. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . a spirit potential as Ariel in the creation ofelemental strife. For several months, premonitions of a storm, that threat-ened danger to the integrity of the organization there rejiresented, had beenabundant. Violently discordant elements were now in close contact. Theclouds rapidly thickened, and before the sun went down on that first dayof the session, all felt that a fierce tempest was impending, which mighttopple from its foundations, laid by Jefferson, the venerable political fabricknown as the Democratic Party, which h
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . a spirit potential as Ariel in the creation ofelemental strife. For several months, premonitions of a storm, that threat-ened danger to the integrity of the organization there rejiresented, had beenabundant. Violently discordant elements were now in close contact. Theclouds rapidly thickened, and before the sun went down on that first dayof the session, all felt that a fierce tempest was impending, which mighttopple from its foundations, laid by Jefferson, the venerable political fabricknown as the Democratic Party, which he and his friends had reared sixtyyears before. On the morning of the second day of the session, Caleb Cushing, ofMassachusetts, was chosen permanent President of the Convention, and avice-president and secretary for each State were appointed. The choice ofPresident was very satisfactory. Mr. Cushing was a man of much expe-rience in politics and legislation. He was possessed of wide intellectualculture, and was a sagacious observer of men. He was then sixty years of. THE SOUTH INSTITUTE. 1 This building, in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signed (it was adoptedin St. Andrews Hall), late in December, 1860, was destroyed by fire in December, 1861. St. Andrews Hall, inwhich the conspirators against the Eepublic who seceded from the Democratic Convention now under con-sideration assembled, and in which the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was adopted by the unanimousvoice of a Convention, was destroyed at the same time. Everything about the site of these buildings, made infa-mous in history because of the wicked acts performed in them, yet C\ 865) exhibits a ghastly picture of desolation. 20 THE SPIRIT OF THE SLAVE INTEREST.
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