The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . r, his policy was formed,shaped, and made glowing hot by one terrible blow. Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Charles Godfrey Leland, page 104. First Call for 75,000 Men On April 15, 1861, he issued a proclamation announcing that,as the laws of the United States were being opposed, and the exe-cution thereof obstructed in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations toopowerful to be suppressed by
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . r, his policy was formed,shaped, and made glowing hot by one terrible blow. Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Charles Godfrey Leland, page 104. First Call for 75,000 Men On April 15, 1861, he issued a proclamation announcing that,as the laws of the United States were being opposed, and the exe-cution thereof obstructed in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations toopowerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial pro-ceedings, he, the President of the United States, called forth themilitia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate of 75,00cin order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the lawrs tc beduly executed. Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Charles Godfrey Leland, page 105. Virginia Secedes and Seizes Harpers Ferry But if Sumter unified the sentiment of the North, it did noless for the South. Henceforth there was but one voice in the. (309) 4oo THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN Southern States, and that for the Confederacy In Vir-ginia a convention was in session whose members up to that daywere in the main for the Union. On April 17 that convention passedan ordinance of secession. The next day the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was seized by theState, and the Southern Confederacy at Montgomery was informedthat Virginia was open to its troops. The line of hostility hadreached the very boundaries of Washington. The bluffs across thePotomac, now beautiful in the first green of spring, on which looked every morning from his window in the White House,were no longer in his country. They belonged to the enemy. With the news of the secession of Virginia there reached Wash-ington on Thursday, April 18, a rumor that a large Confederateforce was marching on the city. Now there were not more than2500 armed men i
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