New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . IARK AND BROADWAY, 1830. JVEIV YORK, THE METROPOLIS. XIX. NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD. WHEN South Carolina passed its secession ordinance Fernando Wood was Mayor of New York. He was a »Copperhead, and when he outlined a plan to make this a free city or port, like Bremen and Hamburg,with merely nominal duties, so as to attract the commerce of the world, he thought he was giving birth to agreat and original idea. But he reckoned without the people who elected him. And when the first gun wasfired on Fort Sumt
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . IARK AND BROADWAY, 1830. JVEIV YORK, THE METROPOLIS. XIX. NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD. WHEN South Carolina passed its secession ordinance Fernando Wood was Mayor of New York. He was a »Copperhead, and when he outlined a plan to make this a free city or port, like Bremen and Hamburg,with merely nominal duties, so as to attract the commerce of the world, he thought he was giving birth to agreat and original idea. But he reckoned without the people who elected him. And when the first gun wasfired on Fort Sumter it woke the people to a sense of their duty as Americans, and set their hearts beatingwildly in the National cause, so wildl)- iind so loyally that had Fernando Wood tried to put his theory intopractice the men of New York City might have him from a telegraph pole. When the finst call fortroops was issued by President Lincoln, New York sent 8,000 men to the front, among whom were the Sixth,Seventh, Eleventh, Twelfth and Sixty-ninth Regiments, and from that time till the close of the Rebellion thiscity alone
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