The New York Herald reports: “Mr. Hamlin, the Vice President elect, left his home in Maine, en route for Washington, yesterday. He will arrive in this city tomorrow.” U. S. Vice President elect Hannibal Hamlin (from Maine; photograph) is currently married to a Baptist family – for the second time. His first wife, Sarah Jane…
In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis, former U. S. Senator from Mississippi, is installed as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Southern Baptist minister Basil Manly, Sr., chaplain during the convention proceedings that in recent days birthed the Confederate States of America, opens the inauguration ceremonies in front of the capitol.…
Today is Sunday, and U. S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln, en route to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, attends church services in Buffalo, New York. The New York Herald reports on the event: “Mr. Fillmore called at ten A.M. with a carriage for Mr. Lincoln and both attended divine service at the Unitarian church. Dr. Hosmer,…