Major-General Charles W. Stanford, head of the First Division of the New York State Militia headquartered in New York City, wrote to Governor Edwin Morgan and offered his troops "for any duty which the present emergency may require."  He counted sixteen regiments and around 7,000 men with thousands of others in reserve and suggested his men were ready to replace regular artillerymen around New York harbor within twenty-four hours should these U.S. Army troops be moved south.  The governor provisionally accepted the offer two days later.  (By John Osborne)

Vermont-born Judge David Allen Smalley, presiding over the U.S. District Court charged his Grand Jury to investigate all possible acts of treason under their jurisdiction.  His charge was studied and direct.  While certain states probably had grievances against other states in the crisis, this did not excuse the overt acts of treason against the United States of the past weeks. Treason, he reminded them, included "giving aid and comfort", and provided a clear definition. This action caused excitement since many New York businesses were trading with the South at the time.  (By John Osborne) 

At the state capital of Augusta, both houses of the Maine legislature voted unanimously to request that the governor offer to the President of the United States all assistance, including men and money, in the current crisis "for the maintenance of the Union and the enforcement of the laws."  (By John Osborne)  

The planned mass meeting of working men took place in Independence Square in the evening.  Speeches were made urging conciliation, the repeal of legislation offensive to the South, and the Crittenden proposals.  The meeting endorsed, however, a proposal to support the federal government in all "just and legal" enforcement of the law.  A delegation was then formed to visit the Congress and the White House in Washington and the state capitol in Harrisburg to lobby for these views. (By John Osborne) 

Labor leaders in Philadelphia met in the evening at the Spring Garden Hall. After discussion, the gathering resolved both "to use military force defensively against those who resist the Federal officers in the execution of their legal functions" and to endorse the Crittenden Compromise as a way to avoiding disunion.  A mass meeting of working men was also planned for Independence Square the following week.  (By John Osborne) 

A large meeting of mostly Democrats opposed to coercing the South in the crisis met in Philadelphia at the National Hall.  Charles Macalester chaired and called for the end of personal liberty laws, any use of force, and even disunion if need be.  Robert P. Kane called for a "strict construction of the Constitution" and held that slavery was "purely a question of political economy" rather than morality.  The sentiments were not unanimous and several speakers were ejected and others drowned out.  (By John Osborne)