Great events the last month. April 12 and 13, Fort Sumter
[was] attacked and taken by the South Carolina troops by order of the
Government of the Confederate States at Montgomery. Sunday evening, April 14,
news of Lincoln's call for 75,000 men [was] received here with unbounded
enthusiasm. How relieved we were to have a Government again! I shall never
forget the strong emotions, the wild and joyous excitement of that Sunday
evening. Staid and sober church members thronged the newspaper offices, full of
the general joy and enthusiasm. Great meetings were held. I wrote the resolutions
of the main one, — to be seen in the Intelligencer of the next week.
Then the rally of troops, the flags floating from every house, the liberality,
harmony, forgetfulness of party and self — all good. Let what evils may follow,
I shall not soon cease to rejoice over this event.
The resolutions referred to were published in the Gazette
of the 16th [of] April and in the Intelligencer of the 18th.
[The resolutions were as follows:
"Resolved, That the people of Cincinnati, assembled
without distinction of party, are unanimously of opinion that the authority of
the United States, as against the rebellious citizens of the seceding and
disloyal States, ought to be asserted and maintained, and that whatever men or
means may be necessary to accomplish that object the patriotic people of the
loyal States will promptly and cheerfully furnish.
"Resolved, That the citizens of Cincinnati will,
to the utmost of their ability, sustain the general Government in maintaining
its authority, in enforcing the laws, and in upholding the flag of the
Union."]
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary
and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 16
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