When was it published?

March 26, 1861 in The Daily Gate City

Domestic News March 26, 1861

The Daily Gate City

Q: What keywords are associated?

Office Seeking, Southern Confederacy, Montgomery, Army Commissions, Office Applicants

Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa

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What is this article about?

A resigned clerk reports from Montgomery on the Southern Confederacy's overwhelmed government with far more office-seekers than positions, high hotel rates, intense competition for commissions, and few army rank volunteers; he plans to return jobless.

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Office Seeking in the Southern Confederacy.—One of the many clerks who resigned their offices here from 'patriotic' motives, and went to Montgomery to tender their services to the Southern Confederacy, has written to his friends here that that Government is 'no great shakes' after all. He and his compatriot applied for office, and did not get anything but a vague promise. He says that there are five times as many applicants for office there under the Southern embryo Government as there are here, and that the town is so besieged by this class of persons that the hotels charge three dollars and a half per day. He will return in a day or two. The rush for Army and Navy commissions is unparalleled, and the town is literally overrun by office-seekers; but the offers of men for the ranks of the army are proportionately small.—[Wash. Cor. N. Y. Times.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics

What keywords are associated?

Office Seeking Southern Confederacy Montgomery Army Commissions Office Applicants

Where did it happen?

Montgomery

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Montgomery

Outcome

the clerk and his compatriot received only a vague promise of office and the clerk plans to return soon.

Event Details

One of the many clerks who resigned their offices from patriotic motives and went to Montgomery to tender their services to the Southern Confederacy wrote to his friends that the Government is no great shakes after all. He and his compatriot applied for office but did not get anything but a vague promise. There are five times as many applicants for office there under the Southern embryo Government as here, and the town is so besieged by this class of persons that the hotels charge three dollars and a half per day. The rush for Army and Navy commissions is unparalleled, and the town is literally overrun by office-seekers, but the offers of men for the ranks of the army are proportionately small.