THE SOUTHERN EXCITEMENT: A BETTER FEELING GAINING GROUND; THE NEXT PRESIDENT: LETTERS FROM MR. LINCOLN’S HOME (11/15/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/15/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

A BETTER FEELING GAINING GROUND. Refutation of Ridiculous Stories -- Letter from Mr. Botts. A Grand Union Mass-Meeting to be Held in Virginia. Good Effects of Keitt's Last Speech. What the President will Do in Case of Secession. FURTHER NEWSPAPER VIEWS. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 14. In the absence of official information, the War Department discredits the report that the Washington light Infantry are in possession of the Charleston Arsenal. It may have originated in Capt. GARDNER's sending up for some articles for Fort Moultrie, including paint and percussion caps. These were sent to the wharf from the Arsenal, but the owner of the wharf refused to let them be forwarded to the Fort unless directed to do so by the town authorities. The articles were returned to the Arsenal, as there was no immediate necessity for them at the Fort. Had the storekeeper been so disposed, or had the troops been directed to guard the property against mob violence, official information would no doubt have been telegraphed here. Fort Moultrie is not dependent on the Charleston Arsenal for supplies. The Intelligencer this morning contains an "authorized" correction of two supposed errors in my dispatch in Monday's TIMES. It denies that Mr. CORWIN said that fear would ever operate on the South, or that he attributed certain unworthy motives to Mr. LINCOLN. The TIMES dispatch contained no such statements, and the authorized correction was quite superfluous. There is evidently a better feeling here to-day in reference to the Southern difficulties, and strong hopes are now expressed that a few speeches like Mr. KEITT's will arouse the Southern States to avert, if possible, a "common ruin," by arresting mad fanaticism.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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So the new FR server site seems to work fine for posting new material but my links to previous issues and my posting history don’t work. The url addresses look exactly the same but no go. Maybe it will some clear up.

The Southern Excitement: A Better Feeling Gaining Ground – 2-3
Senator Douglas in New-Orleans: Enthusiastic Reception – 3
Newspaper Reports* – 3-4
The Next President: Letters from Mr. Lincoln’s Home – 4-6
Editorial: Secession-How is it to be Accomplished? – 5

* Any of you readers who live in Charleston are now proscribed from reading my Harper’s Weekly posts. See the announcement on page 4.

[colorado tanker]

Would the men of South Carolina have been so deliriously happy had they known how many of them would die and their state despoiled?