Throughout the six States there was but one anxiety, one resolve,--anxiety for the safety of the government, resolve to subdue the revolt against it.
New England is not mentioned first except in a geographical sense.
More important even than her patriotic action was the course of the great Central and Western States.

New York and Pennsylvania of themselves constituted no mean power, with a population of seven millions, with their boundless wealth, and their ability to produce the material of war.

Edwin D.Morgan was the Executive of New York.

He was a successful merchant of high character, of the sturdiest common sense and soundest judgment.

A man of wealth himself, he possessed the entire confidence of the bankers and capitalists of the metropolis.