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...added: "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." He cited precedents: Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, each of whom had ordered the U.S. Navy to stamp out piracy. This act, said he, "is no act of war on our part ... is solely defense." Then he came to the reason for the speech: "But let this warning be clear...
...hall. He asked arch-Southerner Mrs. Roger Pryor (Reminiscences of War & Peace) "whether the house were on fire." She explained that "the shouts were those of rejoicing over a telegram announcing the secession of South Carolina." "That evening, Southern leaders, after celebrating in the parlor of Senator Jefferson Davis," went to call on Buchanan. Mrs. Davis rushed "impetuously ahead to share the good news with the President...
...North shouted for appeasement. Lincoln was inaugurated. At the Washington Theater Joseph Jefferson delighted Unionists and secesh alike with Rip Van Winkle. Hungry customers at Harvey's kept 20 men busy opening oysters. "A valuable Negro" was put up for sale at the county jail. Lilacs bloomed in the dooryards. The new President was driven crazy by "the unceasing tramp" of the Republican office seekers in the White House halls...
...military and naval committees. Moodily the committee contemplated a project of which it is suspicious: the President's pet, the $285,000,000 St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox was flung open. All of the Presidentially refrigerated cuts of pork were dragged from the hooks, even the long-dead...
Charley Hay got mad. One evening he hired a truck, drove to the Capitol steps at Jefferson City, mounted the truck and began making a speech. When he was through, the reputation of the Legislature as a whole was shattered and that of certain legislators was in ruins. He named names, produced documentary evidence, told stories. In the crowd were several of the men he named, some cynically amused, some grimly serious...