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Note ^a, page 15.

The gloomy lull of the early part of the winter of 1860-1, seeming big with final disaster to our institutions, affected some minds that believed them to constitute one of the great hopes of mankind, much as the eclipse which came over the promise of the first French Revolution affected kindred natures, throwing them for the time into doubt and misgivings universal.

Note ^[1], page 31.

1. "The terrible Stone Fleet on a mission as pitiless as the granite that freights it, sailed this morning from Port Royal, and before two days are past will have made Charleston an inland city. The ships are all old whalers, and cost the government from $2500 to $5000 each. Some of them were once famous ships.—" (From Newspaper Correspondences of the day.) Sixteen vessels were accordingly sunk on the bar at the river entrance.
   Their names were as follows:

   Amazon,
   America,
   American,
   Archer,
   Courier,
   Fortune,
   Herald,
   Kensington,
   Leonidas,
   Maria Theresa,
   Potomac,
   Rebecca Simms,
   L.C. Richmond,
   Robin Hood,
   Tenedos,
   

   William Lee.

   All accounts seem to agree that the object proposed was not accomplished. The channel is even said to have become ultimately benefited by the means employed to obstruct it.