. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . ere were in Jersey City certain groups of citizenship, ratherdiminutive, perhaps, that came into existence as the logical reactionagainst the wrongs that might be laid to differences of political has shown us, however, how these wrongs struck at the heartof the Nation, and how, in the progress of events the proponents of thesedivergent views became arrayed on one side or the other until the
. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . ere were in Jersey City certain groups of citizenship, ratherdiminutive, perhaps, that came into existence as the logical reactionagainst the wrongs that might be laid to differences of political has shown us, however, how these wrongs struck at the heartof the Nation, and how, in the progress of events the proponents of thesedivergent views became arrayed on one side or the other until the vortexof the Civil War engulfed them. The idea of a war to settle thesedifferences was then an unbelievable thing; early in 1861 the local papercommented complacently upon the secession cockades that certaingentlemen, names not given, wore in their hats upon Jersey Citysstreets: nobody prepared for war as the way to discourage their decoratingthemselves. But the moment came when dealing academically withslavery and secession was done away with forever. The Presidents proclamation declaring the Southern states inrebellion and calling for 75,000 militia from loyal states was published. here April 15, 1861. Several other interesting news items were pub-lished in the same issue of the paper. A coasting schooner had comeup the river and anchored off the city, somewhere near the foot ofEssex Street. A palmetto flag flew from her mast-head. Some soot-stained patriots from the Dummer glassworks saw the objectionableemblem and rowed out to the schooner. 1 he clump, clump, of theiriron nailed shoes across the deck awakened the captain, and he wasgiven the choice of hauling down the ensign and breaking out OldGlory in its place, or having his boat sunk. He saved his ship. At the close of an enthusiastic Union meeting in the HudsonHouse, the crowd swept up the street and jeered and booed beforethe newspaper office, 23 and 25 Montgomery Street, and then wentto the homes of its publishers f
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