Daily Report

Friday, April 19, 1861

Birthdays

William Orlando Butler

70 years old today

Isaac Brown Parker

20 years old today

James Sidney Rollins

49 years old today

Charles Scott Venable

34 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

Documents

Newspaper	Boston (MA) Liberator, “An Ancient and A Modern Compromise,” April 19, 1861	04/19/1861
Newspaper	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Speech of Hon. Alex H. Stephens,” April 19, 1861	04/19/1861
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Henry Ward Beecher on War,” April 19, 1861	04/19/1861
Executive record	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a Blockade of the South, April 19, 1861	04/19/1861