continued in the exercise of their duties the police force which
is lawfully enrolled, and which has won the confidence and
applause of all good citizens by its fidelity and impartiality at
all times and under all circumstances. But the arrangement was
not satisfactory to the Federal authorities.
"As the men of the police force, through no fault of theirs, are
now prevented from discharging their duty, their pay constitutes
a legal claim on the city from which, in my opinion, it cannot be
relieved.
"The force which has been enrolled is in direct violation of the
law of the State, and no money can be appropriated by the city
for its support without incurring the heavy penalties provided by
the Act of Assembly.
"Officers in the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Department who
are appointed by the mayor and city council, and not by the board
of police, have been discharged and others have been substituted
in their place.
"I mention these facts with profound sorrow, and with no purpose
whatever of increasing the difficulties unfortunately existing in
this city, but because it is your right to be acquainted with the
true condition of affairs, and because I cannot help entertaining
the hope that redress will yet be afforded by the authorities of
the United States upon a proper representation made by you. I am
entirely satisfied that the suspicion entertained of any
meditated hostility on the part of the city authorities against
the General Government is wholly unfounded, and with the best
means of knowledge express the confident belief and conviction
that there is no organization of any kind among the people for
such a purpose. I have no doubt that the officers of the United
States have acted on information which they deemed reliable,
obtained from our own citizens, some of whom may be deluded by
their fears, while others are actuated by baser motives; but
suspicions thus derived can, in my judgment, form no sufficient
justification for what I deem to be grave and alarming violations
of the rights of individual citizens of the city of Baltimore and
of the State of Maryland.
"Very respectfully,
"GEO. WM. BROWN, _Mayor_."
APPENDIX V.
As a part of the history of the times, it may not be inappropriate to
reproduce an account, taken from the Baltimore American of December 5,
1860, of the reception of the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Connecticut,
in the city of Baltimore. At this time it still seemed to most men of
moderate views that the impending troubles might be averted through
concessions and compromise. In the tone of the two speeches, both of
which were, of course, meant to be friendly and conciliatory, there is
a difference to be noted which was, I think, characteristic of the
attitude of the two sections; in the one speech some prominence is
given to the Constitution and constitutional rights; in the other,
loyalty to the Union is the theme enforced:
"The Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Connecticut, under the command of
Major Horace Goodwin, yesterday afternoon reached here, at four
o'clock, by the Philadelphia train, _en route_ for a visit to the tomb
of Washington. A detachment of the Eagle Artillery gave them a
national salute.
"The Battalion Baltimore City Guards, consisting of four companies,
under the command of Major Joseph P. Warner, were drawn up on
Broadway, and after passing in salute, the column moved by way of
Broadway and Baltimore and Calvert streets to the old Universalist
church-building.
"As soon as the military entered the edifice and were seated, the
galleries were thrown open to the public, and in a few minutes they
were crowded to overflowing.
"Captain Parks introduced Major Goodwin to Mayor Brown, who was in
turn introduced to the commissioned officers of the Phalanx. Major
Goodwin then turned to his command and said: 'Gentlemen of the
Phalanx, I have the honor of introducing you to the Mayor of the city
of Baltimore.' Mayor Brown arose, and after bowing to the Battalion,
addressed them as follows:
"MAYOR BROWN'S SPEECH.
"'_Mr. Commander and Gentlemen_:--In the name and on behalf of the
people of Baltimore, I extend to the Putnam Phalanx a sincere and
hearty welcome to the hospitalities of our city. The citizens of
Baltimore are always glad to receive visits from the citizen-soldiers
of sister States, because they come as friends, and more than
friends--as the defenders of a common country.
"'These sister States, as we love to call them, live somewhat far
apart, and gradually become more and more separated by distance, just
as sisters will be as the children marry and one by one leave the
parent homestead.
"'But, gentlemen, far or near, on the Connecticut or Potomac, on the
Gulf of Mexico or the great lakes, on the Atlantic or Pacific, they
are sisters still, united by blood and affection, and the holy tie
should never be severed. (Applause.)
"'Let me carry the figure a step further, and add what I know will
meet with a response from the Putnam Phalanx, with whose history and
high character I am somewhat acquainted--that a sisterhood of States,
like separate families of sisters living in the same neighborhood, can
never dwell together in peace unless each is permitted to manage her
own domestic affairs in her own way (applause); not only without
active interference from the rest, but even without much fault-finding
or advice, however well intended it may be.
"'Maryland has sometimes been called the Heart State, because she lies
very close to the great heart of the Union; and she might also be
called the Heart State because her heart beats with true and warm love
for the Union. (Loud applause.) Nor, as I trust, does Connecticut fall
short of her in this respect. And when the questions now before the
country come to be fairly understood, and the people look into them
with their own eyes, and take matters into their own hands, I believe
that we shall see a sight of which politicians, North and South,
little dream. (Applause.) We shall see whether there is a love for the
Union or not.
"'But there are great national questions agitating the land which must
now be finally settled. One is, Will the States of the North keep on
their statute-books laws which violate a right of the States of the
South, guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the United States? No
individuals, no families, no States, can live in peace together when
any right of a part is persistently and deliberately violated by the
rest. Another question is, What shall be done with the national
territory? Shall it belong exclusively to the North or the South, or
shall it be shared by both, as it was gained by the blood and treasure
of both? Are there not wisdom and patriotism enough in the land to
settle these questions?
"'Gentlemen, your presence here to-day proves that you are animated by
a higher and larger sentiment than that of State pride--the sentiment
of American nationality. The most sacred spot in America is the tomb
of Washington, and to that shrine you are about to make a pilgrimage.
You come from a State celebrated above all others for the most
extensive diffusion of the great blessing of education; which has a
colonial and Revolutionary history abounding in honorable memorials;
which has heretofore done her full share in founding the institutions
of this country--the land of Washington--and which can now do as much
as any other in preserving that land one and undivided, as it was left
by the Father of his Country. I will not permit myself to doubt that
your State and our State, that Connecticut and Maryland, will both be
on the same side, as they have often been in times past, and that they
will both respect and obey and uphold the sacred Constitution of the
country.' (Shouts of applause.)
"As soon as the Mayor concluded, Major Goodwin arose; but it was some
time before he could be heard, such was the tremendous applause with
which he was greeted. The Major is nearly ninety years of age, and is
one of the most venerable-looking men in the country. Dressed in the
old Revolutionary uniform, a _fac-simile_ of that worn by General
Putnam, and with his locks silvered with age, we may say that his
appearance electrified the multitude, and shout after shout shook the
very building. Major Goodwin expressed himself as follows:
"'Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the Baltimore City Guards, permit me to
introduce to you our Judge Advocate, Captain Stuart.'
"Captain Stuart arose and spoke as follows:
"SPEECH OF CAPTAIN STUART.
"'Your Honor, Mayor Brown: For your kind words of welcome, and for
your patriotic sentiments in favor of the Union, the Putnam Phalanx
returns you its most cordial thanks. I can assure you, sir, that when
you spoke in such eloquent terms of the value and importance of a
united country, you but echoed the sentiments of the whole of our
organization; and let me say, it is with great pleasure, upon a
journey, as we are, to the tomb of the illustrious Washington; that we
pause for a while within a city so famed for its intelligence, its
industry, its general opulence and its courtesy, as is this your own
beautiful Baltimore.
"'We opine, nay, we know from what you have yourself, in such fitting
terms, just expressed, that you heartily appreciate the purpose which
lies at the foundation of our organization, that purpose being the
lofty one of commemorating, by our military attire and discipline, the
imposing foundation-period of the American Republic, of attracting our
own patriotic feeling, and that of all who may honor us with their
observation, to the exalted virtues of those heroic men who laid the
foundations of our present national prosperity and glory--men of whom
your city and State furnished, as it pleasantly happens, a large and
most honorable share.
"'We come, sir, from that portion of the United States in which the
momentous struggle for American freedom took its rise, and where the
blood of its earliest martyrs was shed; from the region where odious
writs of assistance, infamous Courts of Admiralty, intolerable
taxation, immolated charters of government and prohibited commerce
were once fast paving the way for the slavery of our institutions;
from the region of a happy and God-fearing people--from the region,
sir, of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill and Croton Heights, of
ravaged New London and fired Fairfield and Norwalk and devastated
Danbury and sacked New Haven. And we come, Mr. Mayor, to a city and
State, we are proudly aware, which to all these trials and perils of
assaulted New England, and to the trials and perils of our whole
common country, during "the times that tried men's souls," gave ever
the meed of its heartfelt sympathy, and the unstinted tribute of its
patriotic blood and treasure; which, with a full and clear
comprehension of all the great principles of American freedom, and a
devotion to those principles that was ever ardent and exalted,
signalized themselves by their wisdom in council and their prowess on
the field.
"'When the devoted metropolis of New England began to feel the awful
scourge of the Writ Bill, Maryland it was that then contributed most
liberal supplies for its suffering people, and with these supplies
those cheering, ever-to-be-remembered, talismanic words: "The Supreme
Director of all events will terminate this severe trial of your
patriotism in the happy confirmation of American freedom."
"'When this same metropolis soon after became the seat of war,
Maryland it was that at once sent to the camp around Boston her own
companies of "dauntless riflemen," under her brave Michael Cresap and
the gallant Price, to mingle in the defense of New England firesides
and New England homes. She saw and felt, and bravely uttered at the
time, the fact that in the then existing state of public affairs there
was no alternative left for her, or for the country at large, but
"base submission or manly resistance"; and, Mr. Mayor, at the
memorable battle of Long Island she made this manly resistance, for
there she poured out the life-blood of no less than two hundred and
fifty-nine of her gallant sons, who fought in her own Smallwood's
immortal regiment; and elsewhere, from the St. Lawrence to the banks
of the Savannah, through Pennsylvania, Virginia and both the
Carolinas--devoted the best blood within her borders, and the flower
of her soldiery, to the battlefields of the Union.
"'Sir, we of this Phalanx recall these and other Revolutionary
memories belonging to your city and State with pride and satisfaction.
They unite Connecticut and Maryland in strong and pleasant bonds. And
we are highly gratified to be here in the midst of them, and to
receive at your hands so grateful a welcome as that which you have
extended.
"'Be assured, Mr. Mayor, that in the sentiments of devotion to our
common country which you so eloquently express, this Phalanx
sympathizes heart and soul. You may plant the flag of the Union
anywhere and we shall warm to it. And now, renewedly thanking you for
the present manifestation of courtesy, we shall leave to enjoy the
hospitality which awaits us in pleasant quarters at our hotel.'
"Captain Stuart was frequently interrupted by applause."
APPENDIX VI.
On the 19th of April, 1880, a portion of the members of the Sixth
Massachusetts Regiment again visited Baltimore, and an account of its
reception, taken from the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore _American_,
seems to be a fitting close to this paper:
"Thirty-nine members of the Association of Survivors of the Sixth
Massachusetts Union Regiment came to Baltimore yesterday afternoon, to
celebrate the nineteenth anniversary of their march through Baltimore,
April 19, 1861, which gave rise to the riot of that day. The visitors
were met, on landing from the cars at President-street Depot, by
Wilson, Dushane and Harry Howard Posts, Grand Army of the Republic, in
full uniform, with band and drum corps. The line was up Broadway to
Baltimore street, to Barnum's Hotel. A file of policemen, with
Marshals Gray and Frey, kept the street open for the parade. The
streets were crowded with people. The Massachusetts men wore citizen's
dress and badges."
Wilson Post No. 1, of the Grand Army of the Republic, received the
visitors in their hall, Rialto Building, at two o'clock. Commander
Dukehart, of Wilson Post, welcomed the guests in a brief speech, and
then introduced Comrade Crowley, of the old Sixth, who said:
"'Nineteen years ago I was but a boy. A few days before the 19th of
April, the militia of Middlesex County were summoned for the defense
of the National Capital. We left workshops, desk and family, to come
to the defense of the capital. We thought we were coming to a picnic;
that the people of South Carolina were a little off their balance,
and would be all right on sober second thought. A few miles out from
Baltimore the Quartermaster gave us each ten rounds of ammunition. We
had been singing songs. The Colonel told us he expected trouble in
Baltimore, and impressed on each man not to fire until he was
compelled to. The singing ceased, and we then thought we had serious
business before us, and that others besides South Carolina had lost
their balance. When we reached the Baltimore Depot some of the cars
had gone ahead, and four companies--young men--were in the cars
unconscious of what was going on outside. We thought the people of
Baltimore and Maryland were of the same Government, and if not they
ought to be. (Cheers and applause.) That they had the same interest in
the Government, the best ever devised; that Maryland at least was
loyal. A man knocked on the car-door and told us they were tearing up
the track. Our Captain said, "Men, file out!" The order was given and
we marched out. The Captain said, "March as close as you possibly can.
Fire on no man unless compelled." We marched through railroad iron,
bricks and other missiles. We proved ourselves brave soldiers--proved
that we could wait, at least, for the word of command. We were pelted
in Baltimore nineteen years ago. We lost some of our comrades, and
others were disabled for life. But we went to Washington. We don't
claim to be the saviors of the capital; we take no great credit for
what we did; but we did the best we could, and the result is shown.
The success of our march through Baltimore to-day is as indelibly
fixed and will ever be as fresh as that of nineteen years ago, and our
reception will remain in our hearts and minds as long as life lasts.
My father had six sons, and five were at the front at the same time.
I had learned to think that if Maryland, South Carolina or Virginia
was to declare independence the Government would be broken up, and
that we would have no country, no home, no flag. We were not fighting
for Massachusetts, for Maryland or for Virginia, but for our
country--the United States (cheers and applause)--remembering the
declaration of the great statesman, "Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable." This country went through four years of
carnage and blood. Few families, North or South, but have mourning at
their firesides; but it was not in vain, for it has established the
fact that we are one people, and are an all-powerful people.
(Prolonged cheers.) Our reception to-day has convinced us that the war
has ended, and that there are Union men in Maryland as in
Massachusetts; that we are brothers, and will be so to the end of
time; that this is one great country; and that the people are marching
on in amity and power, second to none on the face of the globe.'
(Cheers.)
"In the evening there was a banquet at the Eutaw House, and Judge Geo.
William Brown, who was Mayor of Baltimore in 1861, presided. Nearly
two hundred persons were at table. After the dinner was over, Judge
Brown said:
"'This is the 19th of April, a day memorable in the annals of this
city, and in the annals of the country. It is filled in my mind with
the most painful recollections of my life, and I doubt not that many
who are here present share with me those feelings. I shall make but
brief allusions to the events of that day. The city authorities of
Baltimore of that time have mostly passed away, and I believe I am the
only one here present to-night. In justice to the living and the dead
I have to say that the authorities of Baltimore faithfully endeavored
to do their duty. It is not necessary for me, perhaps, to say so in
this presence. (Applause.) It was not their fault that the
Massachusetts Sixth Regiment met a bloody reception in the streets of
Baltimore. The visit of that regiment on both occasions has a great
and important significance. What did it mean in 1861? It meant civil
war; that the irrepressible conflict which Mr. Seward predicted had
broken out at last, and that, as Mr. Lincoln said, a house divided
against itself cannot stand. A great question then presented itself to
the country. When war virtually began in Baltimore, by bloodshed on
both sides, it meant that the question must be settled by force
whether or not the house should stand. It took four years of war,
waged with indomitable perseverance, to decide it, because the
combatants on both sides were sustained by deep and honest
convictions. It is not surprising, looking back coolly and calmly on
the feelings of that day, that they found vent as they did. I am not
here to excuse or to apologize, but to acknowledge facts. That was the
significance of the first visit of the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment,
in response to the call of the President of the United States. After
the war there was peace. But enforced peace is not sufficient in a
family of States any more than in a household. There must be among
brothers respect, confidence, mutual help and forbearance, and, above
everything, justice and right. After nineteen years the visit of
survivors of the Sixth Massachusetts is, I hope, significant of more
than peace. It is, I hope, significant of the fact that there is a
true bond of union between the North and the South (applause), and
that we are a family of States, all equal, all friends; and if it be,
there is no one in the country who can more fervently thank God than
myself that the old house still stands.' (Applause.)
"Judge Brown offered as a toast: 'The Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts:
Baltimore extends to her fraternal greeting.'"
INDEX.
A
Acton, regiment mustered in, 42.
Allen, E. J., dispatches addressed to, 131.
_American, The_, on the Baltimore riot of 1861, 65;
account of the Putnam Phalanx in Baltimore, 160-167;
on the reception of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in
Baltimore, 167-170.
Andrew, Gov. J. A., correspondence with Mayor Brown, 54, 55.
Arkansas, secession of, 33.
B
Baltimore, unjust prejudice against, 13, 19;
supposed conspiracy in, 14, 15, 120;
slaveholders in, 30;
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in, 42-53, 167-170;
excitement on 20th April, 60, 61, 64;
defense of, 63;
apprehension of bloodshed in, 75;
armed neutrality, 77;
Gen. Butler's entrance into, 84;
Gen. Dix's headquarters in, 100, 101;
Mayor's message to City Council, 157-159;
reception of Putnam Phalanx in, 160-166.
Banks, Gen. N. P., in command, 97;
arrests police commissioners of Baltimore, 98, 99;
Secretary Cameron's letter to, 102;
General McClellan's letter to, 102.
Bartol, Judge, imprisonment of, 94.
Belger, Major, comes to Baltimore, 73.
Bell, Presidential vote for, 25.
Black, Judge, on martial law, 93.
Blackstone on the right of imprisonment, 147, 149.
Bond's, Judge, errand to Lincoln, 57, 61.
Boston, slave-traffic in, 20;
regiment mustered in, 42.
Brand, Rev. William F., efforts for emancipation, 113.
Breckinridge, Presidential vote for, 25.
Brown, Geo. Wm., meets the Massachusetts Sixth in Baltimore, 48, 49;
Captain Dike on, 54;
correspondence with Gov. Andrew, 54, 55;
speech to the excited public, 56;
writes to President Lincoln about passage of troops through
Baltimore, 57, 61, 62;
interview with President Lincoln, 71-75;
General Butler's letter to, 83, 84;
petitions Congress to restore peace to city, 99;
arrest of, 102, 103, 108;
correspondence with General Dix, 104-108;
parole offered to, 110, 111;
anti-slavery principles of, 113;
opposed to secession, 115;
on the tendencies of the age, 117, 118;
message to City Council, 157-159;
speech to the Putnam Phalanx, 160-163;
speech to the survivors of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 169, 170.
Brown, John, reverence for in the North, 21.
Brune, Frederick W., efforts for emancipation, 113.
Brune, John C., message to President Lincoln, 57, 61;
accompanies Mayor to Washington, 71;
elected to General Assembly, 79.
Bush River Bridge partially burned to prevent ingress of troops, 58, 59.
Butler, Gen., and the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, 76;
at the Relay House, 83;
rumor of an attack on his camp, 83, 84;
enters Baltimore, 84;
arrests Ross Winans, 87.
Byrne, Wm., denounces the North, 38.
C
Cadwallader, General, and the writ of _habeas corpus_, 88, 140.
Cameron, Simon, advice to Governor Hicks to restrain Maryland, 40;
on the obstruction of Northern Central bridge, 73;
letter to Gen. Banks, 102.
Carmichael, Judge, assaulted and imprisoned, 93.
Carr, W. C. N., speaks at States Rights meeting, 38, 39.
Cheston, G., efforts for emancipation, 113.
Christison, Wenlock, a Quaker, owns slaves, 21.
Clark, John, advances money for defense of city, 61.
Crawford, William, Kane's letter to, 40.
Crowley, Comrade, of the Massachusetts Sixth, speech in
Baltimore, 1880, 167.
Curtis, Benj. R., Life of, quotation about Judge Taney, 91.
Cutter, B. L., release from arrest, 109.
D
Davis, Jefferson, elected President of the Confederacy, 32.
Davis, John W., police commissioner of Baltimore, 35, 49;
errand to Fort McHenry, 66, 67, 68.
Davis, Judge, doubts the rumors of conspiracy, 132, 133.
Davis, Robert W., killed, 52.
De Tocqueville, on public opinion in America, 117.
Dike, Capt. J. H., company attacked in Baltimore, 46;
testifies as to the conduct of Baltimore civil authority
during the riot, 53, 54.
Dimick, Col. J., releases prisoners from Fort Warren, 108;
kind treatment of prisoners, 111.
Dix, General, headquarters in Baltimore, 101;
correspondence with Mayor Brown, 104-108.
Dix, Miss, relates a Confederate plot, 13.
Dobbin, Geo. W., errand to Lincoln, 57, 61;
accompanies the Mayor to Washington, 71.
Douglas, S. A., Senatorial campaign, 22;
Presidential vote for, 25.
Dred Scott Case, 138.
E
Evans, H. D., his code for Liberia, 31.
F
Felton, C. C., on the "Baltimore Plot," 18.
Felton, Samuel M., on the supposed conspiracy, 13-18, 129-133;
advises Massachusetts Sixth to load their guns, 43;
engages spies, 120.
Ferrandini, Captain, suspected of conspiracy to assassinate
President Lincoln, 122-129.
Follansbee, Capt., company attacked in Baltimore, 46, 49.
Fort McHenry, apprehended attack on, 66, 69.
Fort Sumter, bombardment of, 32.
Franciscus, in the car with Lincoln, 133.
G
Garrett's, John W., dispatch to Mayor Brown concerning advance of
troops to Cockeysville, 73, 74, 75.
Gatchell, Wm. H., police commissioner of Baltimore, 35;
release from arrest, 109.
Giles, Judge, issues writ of _habeas corpus_ to Major Morris, 87.
Gill, George M., meets the Massachusetts Sixth, 48;
counsel for John Merryman, 87.
Goodwin, Major Horace, commands Putnam Phalanx, 160;
his appearance, 163.
Greeley, Horace, on the conduct of the Baltimore authorities, 76, 77.
Groton, regiment mustered in, 42.
Gunpowder River Bridge partially burned, 58.
H
_Habeas corpus_ case, 87, 139-156.
Hall, Thomas W., release from arrest, 109.
Hallam's Constitutional History, extract from, 151.
Halleck, Gen., in Baltimore, 101.
Harris, J. Morrison, errand to the Capital, 63.
Harrison, Wm. G., elected to General Assembly, 80;
released from arrest, 108.
Hart, Capt., company attacked in Baltimore, 46.
Herndon, Wm. H., comments on Lincoln's senatorial campaign speech, 23;
reports of plot furnished to, 122.
Hicks, T. H., Governor of Maryland, 34;
proclamation of, 40;
speech before excited public, 56;
writes to Lincoln not to pass troops through Baltimore, 57, 61;
suggests mediation between North and South by Lord Lyons, 76;
convenes General Assembly, 79;
letter to E. H. Webster, 128.
Hilliard, suspected of conspiracy, 122, 123.
Hinks, Chas. D., police commissioner of Baltimore, 35;
released from arrest, 99.
Hopkins, Johns, advances money for city defense, 61.
Howard, Charles, police commissioner of Baltimore, 35;
apprehends attack on Fort McHenry, 66, 67;
report on the state of city, 80, 81;
release from arrest, 108.
Howard, F. K., release from arrest, 109.
Huger, General, made Colonel of 53d Regiment, 66.
Hull, Rob't, release from arrest, 109.
Hyde, Sir Nicholas, on the writ of _habeas corpus_, 150.
J
Jefferson, Thomas, and writ of _habeas corpus_, 141.
Johnson, Capt. B. T., arrives in Baltimore, 64;
hasty dispatch from Marshal Kane, 69, 70.
Jones, Col. Edmund F., passage through Baltimore, 43;
on the Massachusetts Sixth in Baltimore, 46, 47, 48, 51;
letter to Marshal Kane, 54.
Judd, N. B., with Lincoln in Philadelphia, 16;
hears of conspiracy in Baltimore, 128-133.
K
Kane, Marshal George P., investigates supposed plot, 15;
head of Baltimore police, 35;
letter to Crawford, 40;
keeps order at Camden Station, 48;
attempts to quell Baltimore mob, 51, 53;
Col. Jones's gratitude to, 54;
hasty dispatch to Johnson, 69, 70;
after the war elected Sheriff and subsequently Mayor, 70;
arrest of, 97;
release from arrest, 109.
Keim, Gen., arrests John Merryman, 87, 140.
Kenly, John R., supersedes Marshal Kane, 97.
Kennedy, Anthony, errand to the Capital, 63.
Kennedy, John P., on the attitude of Border States, 31, 32.
Kentucky, temporary neutrality of, 34.
Keys, John S., letter from Mayor Brown to, 110, 111.
Kinney, Mr., receives Lincoln in Philadelphia, 134.
L
Lamon, Colonel W. H., on Lincoln's midnight ride, 19, 120-137;
on Lincoln-Douglas campaign, 22;
ride with Lincoln, 133.
Latrobe, John H. B., President of Maryland Colonization Society, 31.
Lawrence, Massachusetts, regiment mustered in, 42.
Lee, Colonel, on Gen. Cadwallader's errand to Judge Taney, 88.
Lewis, Mr., in the car with Lincoln, 133.
Lincoln, President, alleged conspiracy against, in
Maryland, 11-15, 121-137;
midnight ride to Washington, 17, 19, 120;
Senatorial campaign with Douglas, 22;
differs from Seward, 24;
election to Presidency, 25;
calls out the militia, 32;
letter to Gov. Hicks, 62;
Mayor Brown writes to, concerning passage of troops through
Baltimore, 57, 61;
Mayor Brown's interview with, 71-75.
Lowell, Massachusetts, regiment mustered in, 42.
Luckett, suspected of conspiracy, 122-127.
Lyons, Lord, suggested as mediator between North and South, 76;
Secretary Seward's boast of his authority to, 91.
M
Macgill, Dr. Charles, release from arrest, 109.
Marshall, Chief Justice, on _habeas corpus_, 153, 154.
Maryland, rumors of conspiracy in, 11, 12, 13;
slavery in, 20, 30;
Lincoln's call for militia, how received in, 33;
excitement, 40, 41.
Mason, James M., sent from Virginia to negotiate with Maryland, 84.
Massachusetts, Minute Men, 11;
slavery in, 20;
Eighth Regiment, 76;
Sixth Regiment, 42, 167-170.
May, Henry, M. C., arrest of, 103.
McClellan, General, letter to General Banks, 102.
McComas, Sergeant, removes obstruction from railway track in
Baltimore, 49.
McHenry, Ramsay, efforts for emancipation, 113.
Merryman, John, arrest of, 87, 88, 154;
charges against unfounded, 90.
Morfit, H. M., elected to General Assembly, 79.
Morris, Major, refuses to obey writ of _habeas corpus_, 87.
N
Negro. _See_ Slavery.
Newport, slave-traffic in, 20.
Nicolay, George, on Lincoln's midnight ride, 132.
North Carolina, secession of, 33.
O
O'Donnell, Columbus, advances money for city defense, 61.
P
Parker, Edward P., General Butler's aide-de-camp, 83.
Patapsco Dragoons, arrival in Baltimore, 64.
Pemberton, Major, leads U. S. Artillery through Baltimore, 86.
Pennsylvania troops in Baltimore, 44, 53;
at Cockeysville, 75.
Phillips, Wendell, on States Rights, 26.
Pickering, Captain, company opposed in Baltimore, 46.
Pikesville, arsenal taken possession of, 65.
Pitts, Charles H., elected to General Assembly, 80.
Putnam Phalanx of Hartford in Baltimore, 160-166.
Putnam's Record of the Rebellion, quotation from, 38.
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Revolution, right of, 26-29.
Robinson, Dr. Alex. C., Chairman of States Rights Convention, 38.
Robinson, General John C., on Baltimore in 1861, 66, 69, 81, 82, 83.
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Sanford, plans Lincoln's midnight ride, 131.
Sangston, L., elected to General Assembly, 80.
Scharf's History of Maryland quoted, 35, 37, 78, 103.
Scott, General, on the passage of troops through Baltimore, 62, 72, 75.
Scott, T. Parkin, sympathizes with the South, 38, 39;
elected Judge after the war, 39;
elected to General Assembly, 79;
release from arrest, 108.
Seward, Secretary, position before Presidential Convention, 24;
boasts of his authority, 91;
sends news of supposed conspiracy to Lincoln, 130, 134.
Slavery, compromises of Constitution in regard to, 20-22;
Geo. Wm. Brown opposed to, 113;
some good effects of, 114.
Small, Colonel, leads Pennsylvania regiment, 42.
South Carolina, secession of, 31.
Steuart, Dr. Richard S., efforts for emancipation, 113.
Story, Justice, on _habeas corpus_, 152, 153.
Stuart, Captain, speech in Baltimore, 163-166.
Sumner, Colonel, offers to accompany President Lincoln to
Washington, 132, 133.
_Sun, The_, on the offer of service by colored people, 65, 66;
on the suffering of Pennsylvania troops in Baltimore County, 76;
Reception of 6th Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, 167-170.
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Taney, Chief Justice, on negro rights, 21, 138;
_habeas corpus_ case _ex parte_ John Merryman, 87-93, 139-156.
Tennessee, secession of, 33.
Thomas, Dr. J. Hanson, elected to General Assembly, 79.
Trimble, Colonel I. R., defense of Baltimore, 63.
Trist, N. P., news of conspiracy communicated to, 14.
Turner, Capt., suspected of conspiracy, 124-126.
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Union Convention called, 92.
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Virginia, secession of, 33;
sends Mason to negotiate with Maryland, 84.
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Wallis, S. Teackle, legal adviser to Baltimore police commission, 35;
speech to the excited public, 56;
accompanies the Mayor to Washington, 71;
elected to the General Assembly, 79;
release from arrest, 108, 109.
Warfield, Henry M., elected to General Assembly, 79;
release from arrest, 108.
Warner, Major J. P., commands Baltimore City Guards, 160.
Washburne, Mr., meets President Lincoln at Washington Depot, 136.
Watson, Major, company attacked in Baltimore, 45.
Webster, E. H., Gov. Hicks's letter to, 128.
Whitefield, the Calvinist, owns slaves, 21.
Williams, George H., counsel for John Merryman, 87.
Winans, Ross, denounces passage of troops through Baltimore, 37;
elected to General Assembly, 79;
arrested by Gen. Butler's order, 87.
Winder, Wm. H., release from arrest, 109.
Wood, Fernando, tries to make New York a free city, 31.
Wool, General, checks arbitrary arrest, 109.
Worcester, regiment mustered in, 42.
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Haven:
CHAPTER I. THE GENESIS OF NEW HAVEN. -- Davenport and Eaton. --
Formation of a State. -- Town-Meetings. -- Fundamental Agreement.
-- Davenport's Policy. -- Theophilus Eaton.
CHAPTER II. THE EVOLUTION OF TOWN GOVERNMENT. -- Social Order. --
Town Courts. -- The Quarters. -- Military Organization. -- The
Watch. -- The Marshal. -- The Town Drummer. -- Minor Offices. --
Roads. -- Fences. -- Cattle. -- Supervisors. -- Doctor. --
School-Teacher. -- Viewers and Brewers. -- The Townsmen. --
Currency and Taxation.
CHAPTER III. THE LAND QUESTION. -- Official Control over
Alienations and Dwellings. -- Divisions of the Outland. -- New
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-- The Delaware Company.
CHAPTER IV. THE UNION WITH CONNECTICUT. THE BIRTH OF NEWARK. -- A
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-- Increasing Importance of Townsmen. -- The Village Question. --
New Haven and the Restored Stuart. -- Hegira to New Jersey.
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-- Drunkenness. -- Sabbath-breaking. -- Spiritual
Discouragements. -- Quakers and Witches. -- Lewdness. -- Methods
of Civil Procedure. -- Legislation concerning Trade and Prices.
-- Arbitration. -- Magisterial Interest in Trade. -- Revival of
the Common Law and English Usage.
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in Constitution. -- Hopkins Grammar School. -- Minister's Tax. --
Tithingmen. -- Justice of the Peace. -- Divisions of Land. --
Indian Reservations. -- The Village Controversy. -- Public
Benevolence. -- Indian Wars. -- Villages again. -- Tyranny of
Andros. -- Local Enactments. -- Intemperance. -- Funeral Customs.
CHAPTER VII. NEW HAVEN A CONNECTICUT TOWN, 1700-1784. -- The
Quarrel with East Haven. -- Yale College. -- The Walpolean
Lethargy. -- Sale of the Town's Poor. -- First Post-Office. --
First Oyster Laws. -- Sketch of the Town's Commerce. -- The
Approach of the Revolution. -- New Haven during the War. --
Committees. -- Articles of Confederation. -- Treatment of Tories.
-- Final Division of the Township. -- The Church the Germ of the
Town.
CHAPTER VIII. THE DUAL GOVERNMENT. TOWN AND CITY. 1784-1886. --
Town-Born _vs._ Interloper. -- First Phases of City Politics. --
First Charter. -- Description of the City. -- Municipal
Improvements. -- Fire Department. -- Adornment of the Green. --
Public Letters to the Presidents and Others. -- Downfall of
Federalism. -- Slavery and Abolition. -- Municipal Growth. --
Sects. -- Administrative Changes. -- Windfall from Washington. --
Liquor Traffic. -- Light in the Streets. -- High School. -- Era
of Railways. -- Needs of the Poor. -- The City Meeting. --
Charter of 1857. -- Town Officers. -- City Improvement. -- Police
and Fire Departments. -- In the Civil War. -- Recent Charters. --
Conservative Influences in the Community.
CHAPTER IX. THE PRESENT MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION. -- School
District. -- Town Government. -- Town-Meeting. -- Consolidation.
-- City Government. -- City Judiciary. -- City Executive. -- City
Legislature. -- Legislative Control over the Commissions. --
Conduct of Commissions. -- Executive Organization. --
Administrative Courts. -- Frequent Elections. -- Board of
Councilmen. -- Choice of Aldermen.
Appendix A.--Mr. Pierson's Elegy.
" B.--The Town of Naugatuck.
" C.--Dr. Manasseh Cutler's Diary.
" D.--A Town Court of Elections. New Haven, A. D. 1656.
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PHILADELPHIA
1681-1887:
A History of Municipal Development.
BY
EDWARD P. ALLINSON, A. M., AND BOIES PENROSE, A. B., OF THE
PHILADELPHIA BAR.
While several general histories of Philadelphia have been written,
there is no history of that city as a municipal corporation. Such a
work is now offered, based upon the Acts of Assembly, the City
Ordinances, the State Reports, and many other authorities. Numerous
manuscripts in the Pennsylvania Historical Society, in Public
Libraries, and in the Departments at Philadelphia and Harrisburg have
also been consulted, and important facts found therein are now for the
first time published.
The development of the government of Philadelphia affords a peculiarly
interesting study, and is full of instruction to the student of
municipal questions. The first charter granted by the original
proprietor, William Penn, created a close, self-elected corporation,
consisting of the "Mayor, Recorder and Common Council," holding office
for life. Such corporations survived in England from medieval times to
the passage of the Reform Act of 1835. The corporation of Philadelphia
possessed practically no power of taxation, and few and extremely
limited powers of any kind. As a rapidly growing city required greater
municipal powers, the legislature instead of increasing the powers of
the corporation which, being self-elected, was held in distrust by
the citizens, established from time to time various independent
boards, commissions, and trusts for the control of taxation, streets,
poor, etc. These boards were subsequently transformed into the city
departments as they exist to-day. The State and municipal legislation,
extending over two centuries, is extremely varied and frequently
experimental. It affords instruction illustrative of almost every form
of municipal expedient and constitution.
The development of the city government of Philadelphia has been
carefully traced through many changes in the powers and duties of the
mayor, in the election and powers of the subordinate executive
officers, in the position and relation of the various departments, in
the legislative and executive powers of councils, in the frequently
shifting distribution of executive power between the mayor and
councils, and in the procedure of councils. _In 1885 an Act of
Assembly was passed providing for a new government for Philadelphia
which embodies the latest ideas upon municipal questions._
The history of the government of the city thus begins with the
medieval charter of most contracted character, and ends with _the
liberal provisions of the Reform Act of 1885_. It furnishes
illustrations of almost every phase of municipal development. The
story cannot fail to interest all those who believe that the question
of better government for our great cities is one of critical
importance, and who are aware of the fact that this question is
already receiving widespread attention. The subject had become so
serious in 1876 that Governor Hartranft, in his message of that year,
called the attention of the Legislature to it in the following
succinct and forcible statement: "_There is no political problem that
at the present moment occasions so much just alarm and is obtaining
more anxious thought than the government of cities._"
The consideration of the subject naturally resolves itself into five
sharply-defined periods, to each of which a chapter has been devoted,
as indicated by the following summary, which, while not exhaustive,
will suggest the general scope.
CHAPTER I. FIRST PERIOD, 1681-1701. -- Founding of the city. --
Functions of the Provincial Council. -- Slight but certain
evidence of some organized city government prior to Penn's
Charter.
CHAPTER II. SECOND PERIOD, 1701-1789. -- Penn's authority. --
Charter of 1701. -- Attributes of the Proprietary Charter; its
medieval character. -- Integral parts of the corporation. --
Arbitrary nature and limited powers. -- Acts of Legislature
creating independent commissions. -- Miscellaneous acts and
ordinances. -- The Revolution. -- Abrogation of Charter. --
Legislative government. -- Summary.
CHAPTER III. THIRD PERIOD, 1789-1854. -- Character of Second
Charter. -- Causes leading to its passage. -- A modern municipal
corporation. -- Supplements. -- Departments. -- Concentration of
authority. -- Councils. -- Bicameral system adopted. -- Officers,
how appointed or elected. -- Diminishing powers of the mayor. --
Introduction of standing committees. -- Finance. -- Debt. --
Revenue. -- Review of the period.
CHAPTER IV. FOURTH PERIOD, 1854-1887. -- Act of consolidation. --
Causes leading to its passage. -- Features of New Charter. --
Supplements. -- Extent of territory covered by consolidation. --
Character of outlying districts. -- New Constitution. -- Relation
of city and county. -- Summary of changes effected. --
Twenty-five _quasi_-independent departments established. --
Encroachment of legislative upon executive powers. -- Resulting
Citizens' Reform movement. -- Committee of one hundred. --
Contracts. -- Debt. -- Delusive methods of finance. -- Reform
movement in councils. -- Causes leading to the passage of the
Bullit Bill. -- Review of the period.
CHAPTER V. FIFTH PERIOD. -- Text of the Act of 1885. -- History
of the passage of the Bullit Bill. -- Changes by it effected in
the organic law. -- Conclusions.
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