A long and
interesting telegram by the America. The Inauguration on the 4th had gone off
without disturbance of any kind, in the presence of some thirty thousand
persons. Mr. Lincoln's address was both firm and mild,—firm against the
constitutionality of secession, mild in assurances and language. Nothing in the
telegram about convening the new Congress, nor about the new Tariff bill,
though he noticed the passage of Corwin's resolution to amend the Constitution
by expressly prohibiting Congress from meddling with slavery in the States, and
approved it.
SOURCE: George Mifflin
Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States Minister to
Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p. 441-2
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