Campaigns Of The Civil War Vol. 1 - The Outbreak Of Rebellion by John G. Nicolay

Author:John G. Nicolay [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
ISBN: 9783849619954
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER IX - ELLSWORTH.

It has already been related in a previous chapter how the incidents immediately following the fall of Sumter and the President's Proclamation — the secession of Virginia and the adhesion of other Border States — had doubled the strength and augmented the war preparations of the Rebellion. Upon the Government and the people of the North the experience of those eventful days was even more decisive. "Whatever hope President Lincoln and his Cabinet may have entertained at the beginning, that secession could be controlled by the suppression of sporadic insurrections and the reawakening of the slumbering or intimidated loyalty of the South, necessarily faded out before the loss of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and the dangerous uprising in Maryland. Not alone prompt measures to save the capital of the nation were imperatively dictated by the sudden blockade and isolation of Washington, but widespread civil war, waged by a gigantic army and navy, must become the inevitable price of maintaining the "Union. For this work the seventy-five thousand three-months militia were clearly inadequate. It marks President Lincoln's accurate diagnosis of the public danger, and his prompt courage and action to avert it, that, as early as April 26th, ten days after the first proclamation, the formation of a new army had already been resolved upon ; and the War Department began giving official notice that volunteers in excess of the first call could only be received for three years or during the war, the details of the new organizations, to consist of 42,034 volunteers, 22,714 regulars, and 18,000 seamen, being publicly announced on May 3d. Is o express provision of law existed for these measures, but Lincoln ordered them without hesitation, because the exigency did not admit of even the short delay of awaiting the assemblage of Congress. He was too true a type and representative of the people to doubt one instant their sure support and approval of a step which the Constitution covered with its paramount authority, and its imperative personal mandate to the President of the United States to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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