March 17, 1861 (Sunday

"...the silent ballot."



"Guns, Blood, and Congress":  by Adam Goodheart, Disunion--New York Times, March 16, 1861.  Read the story of Congressman Charles H. Van Wyck or Orange County, New York...an attempt made on his life the very same night Lincoln silently passed through Baltimore on his way to Washington.  Wyck had given a speech a year earlier:

"Van Wyck delivered one of the most blistering denunciations of slavery ever uttered in the Capitol.  'I believe slavery to be a crime against the laws of God and nature, violative of the instincts of a common humanity...we [Northerners] threaten not with bayonet, revolver and bowie knife, but with the silent ballot.'"

Sunday evening lecture given in Portland, Maine, March 17, 1861:  Institution of slavery:  viewed in the light of divine truth by William Hayden    Hat tip The Long Recall:  The American Interest, Marcy 17, 1861.

Happy St. Patrick's Day:

Here are some links to events today related to St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1861.  Hat tip Seven Score and Ten.

"Friendly Sons of St. Patrick:  Dinner at the Astor House", New York Times -- Unionists

St. Patrick's Day -- Celebration, Southerners, Daily Constitutionalist, Georgia

 

More on St. Patrick's Day.   Hat tip Blue Gray Review....