Annals of Cleveland

U. S. Senate

Abstracts: 12

35

Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 December 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

35 - L. Dec. 14; ed:2/2 - The bankruptcy bill was passed by the House of
Representatives recently. "We have already expressed our opinion of the
necessity of this measure, and hope that the Senate and President will
speedily act upon it, and that it may become a law before January 1865."
... " (2)

Bankruptcies / Laws

Index terms:

*Bankruptcies; Lincoln, Abraham; U. S. House of Representatives; U. S. Senate

141

Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 June 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

141 - L June 16; ed: 2/1 - Secretary Seward told the Senate that the
line projected by Collins, from the Pacific telegraph to the Amoor River,
with its anticipated extension by the Russian government to Irkutsk, ยบ
would be the one link now wanted to supply direct and unbroken telegraph
communication from Cape Race in Newfoundland, on the Eastern coast of
America, across the Eastern and Western continents and the Pacific Ocean,
to Cape Clear in Ireland, the westermost projection of Europe. -
A submarine cable laid between Cape Clear and Cape Race will complete
a telegraphic circuit around the world between the parallels of 42 degrees
and 65 degrees north latitude. (11)

Cables

Index terms:

Amoor river; *Cables; Cape Clear, Ireland; Cape Race, Newfoundland; Collins (Pacific Cable); Irkutsk, Siberia; Russia; Seward, William H.; U. S. Senate

288

Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 December 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

288 - L Dec. 14; ed:2/2 - The national boor, Garret Davis of Kentucky,
having abandoned the constitution as it is, propose to amend it, and
has submitted a lot of trash to the U. S. Senate. He proposes that
Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire shall be run into one state, and
Massachusetts. Connecticut, and Rhode Island into another, etc.; that
the President shall be chosen alternately from the free and slave states;
and that no Negro shall be a citizen of the United States.
"In these three years, the nation has ceased to prattle about division
of power between free and slave states, for it has decided that there shall
be no slave st: tes.... Your amendments, Sir, are incoherent murmurings
of a sleeping dotard and should be treated as such. Cease groping for
the relics of a past which can never be resurrected and open your eyes
to the glorious rising sun and be silent." (11)

Constitutions / Amendments

Index terms:

Connecticut; Davis, Garret (Kentucky); Kentucky; Lincoln, Abraham; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; U. S. constitution; U. S. Senate; Vermont

620

Cleveland Morning Leader, 9 June 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

620 - L June 9; ed: 1/1 - Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, and Andrew Johnson,
the citizen of Tennessee who rose from a tailor's apprentice to the U. S.
Senate, yesterday at the Union convention in Baltimore were renominated as
president and vice president, respectively.
"As surely as the sun shall rise on the morning of election day, so
surely shall the overwhelming voice of a grateful people, speaking in its
majestic might, declare that Lincoln shall retain the seat which for four
years he has filled with such honesty, ability and patriotism." (11)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Illinois; Johnson, Gov. Andrew (Tenn.); Lincoln, Abraham; Tennessee; Union convention (Baltimore, Md.); U. S. Senate

954

Cleveland Morning Leader, 8 April 1864 (ed; 4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

954 - L. Apr. 8; ed: 2/2 - Sumner, chairman on foreign relations in the
Senate, in his Cooper institute speech, took even stronger ground than
is expressed in the resolution against knuckling to Napoleon. "Napoleon
will now understand the temper of the people of this country; Mexico - -
cannot be the colony of an European Monarch." (4)

Foreign Relations / Border Raids / Diplomats, Appointments, Service

Index terms:

Cooper institute (N. Y.); Mexico; Napoleon, Louis; Sumner, Charles; U. S. Senate

1652

Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 August 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1652 - L. Aug. 16; ed:2/2 - Some Union citizens are very indignant . . . .
because of the Wade and Davis manifesto, and they declare that Wade
should resign his position in the U. S. Seuate.
"While frowning upon all attempts to divide the strength of the -
Union party we need not aggravate any evil by the use of savage terms.
We commend the strong Union spirit of Ravenna, but not its fervor over . . .
the Wade and Davis protest." (3)

Politics and Government / Ohio

Index terms:

Davis, Henry Winter (senator); Ravenna, Ohio; Union; U. S. Senate; Wade, Senator B. F.

1970

Cleveland Morning Leader, 25 June 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1970 - L June 25; ed: 1/2 - By the vote of the Senate, the fugitive slave
law, so long a disgrace to our statutes, has been repealed. "This is a
great achievement, and would be so regarded, were it not for the greater
deeds being done in our land." - (2)

Slavery

Index terms:

U. S. Senate

1978

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 January 1864 (ed; 8 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1978 - L. Jan. 1; ed: 2/1 - "It has now become a daily jeremiad among the
so-called Democracy, that Mr. Lincoln, in making his Amnesty Proclamation,
has done a very cruel, impolitic and unconstitutional act.... The South,
driven to the verge of Union, ... wooed by the dulcet assurances of demo-
cratic love, ... were about to fling themselves into the loving embraces
of their Northern friends.
"According to the New York WORLD... Mr. Lincoln could have offered to
these Southern Lords no greater insult than to demand an oath of alle-
giance to the proclamation of emancipation. 'If instead of this he had
made t l;em offers which the world would have regarded as just and liberal,
the bottom of Meminger's financial bucket would have been knocked out....'
"There may be politicians ready to hob-nob with Jeff Davis in the
Senate, and look benignly upon Toombs and Stevens and men of that
sort, as... misguided men.
"They very much mistake the American people, if they imagine them to
be so blinded and gullible that they (the people) cannot see what's the
matter. Slavery is eternally doomed. In the eyes of all mankind, this
nation would be blasted with infamy to allow the men who have plunged
this once happy people into a war, to return to their old positions of
honor and favor." (8)

Slavery / Emancipation

Index terms:

Davis, Jeff; *Emancipation; Lincoln, Abraham; Memminger; New York; New York WORLD; South; Stevens, Alex; Toombs, Robert; U. S. Senate

2351

Cleveland Morning Leader, 18 February 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2351 - L. Feb. 18; ed: 2/1 - The conscription act awaits its passing in the
Senate. It confiscates the real estate of the Rebel, in fee, and not
for life simply.
"The battle fields of the Republic must not be owned by the Rebels
and slave lords." (6)

Wars / Civil War / Confiscation

Index terms:

U. S. Senate

2417

Cleveland Morning Leader, 4 July 1864 (3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2417 - L. July 4:2/2 - The bill passed by the House and Senate provides that
the commutation clause is repealed, and the President is required to give
50 days notice of a draft. Bounties, payable in semi-annual installments,
are paid to volunteers, $100 for one year, $200 for two years and $300 for
three years. Loyal states are allowed to recruit in all Rebel states ex-
cept Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. -
The bill was passed because Senators and Representatives feared anarch
if a way was not provided for replenishing the army. (3)

Wars / Civil War / Enlistments and Confiscations

Index terms:

Arkansas; Lincoln, Abraham; Louisiana; Ohio river; Tennessee; U. S. army; U. S. House of Representatives; U. S. Senate

2655

Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 April 1864 (ed; 7 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2655 - L Apr. 30; ed:2/1 - The Senate Bill equalizing the pay of white
and colored troops has hung fire in the House so long that the Senate
has adopted it as an amendment to the army appropriation bill.
"The government owes equal pay and protection to all its soldiers,
and no discrimination should be made against men who have volunteered
in face of certain death if captured, to fight the battles of the govern-
ment which has denied to them the rights of citizenship under it." (7)

Wars / Civil War / Receptions and Celebrations

Index terms:

U. S. army; U. S. House of Representatives; U. S. Senate