Identifier: eraofcivilwar18400cole (find matches)
Title: The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Publisher: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ir victory. These were garnered in the legislativesession of 1863. First, Congressman William A. Richardson,who had developed into a bitter opponent of the administra-tion, was selected for the vacated seat in the United Statessenate over Governor Yates, who had been given the compli-mentary republican nomination. The democrats then devotedtheir attention to their legislative program. Resolutions de-nouncing the policy of the federal administration, urging anarmistice and a national convention at Louisville, in whichStephen T. Logan, Samuel S. Marshall, H. K. S. Omelveny, 23 Chicago Times clipped in Illinois State Register, June 6, 1862; Yates toTrumbull, February 14, 1862, Trumbull manuscripts. 24 T. Maple to Trumbull, December 28, 1862, Grant Goodrich to Trumbull,January 31, 1863, ibid. Senator Browning was the only prominent repub-lican to support the conservative middle ground taken by Lincoln, but hewas treated by republican organs as a renegade. Chicago Tribune, July 2,18, 1862.
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ABOLITIONISTS AND COPPERHEADS 299 William C. Goudy, Anthony Thornton, John D. Caton werenamed as commissioners, were pressed through the house andwere blocked in the senate only by the withdrawal of the repub-lican minority.25 This filibustering ended only after assur-ances that the regular business of the legislature would be takenup until disposed of; after the apportionment and appropria-tion bills had been passed a recess was taken until June. SinceGovernor Yates had vetoed the apportionment bill, the demo-crats made their plans to pass it over his veto. A habeas corpusbill to prevent illegal arrests, a bill to prevent the immigrationof Negroes, and resolutions reported by a joint committee onfederal relations were also to be taken up. Irritated beyondendurance by his obstreperous opponents, Governor Yatesinterposed to end the session by proroguing the legislature —the first time in the history of the state that a governor hadexercised this power. A vigorous protest against this

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