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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
to determine the future inter. State and Federal relations of Kentucky. Meanwhile, he would leave no experiment untried to restore fraternal relations between the States. He recommends a Convention of the border Slave States, to meet early in February, at Baltimore. The Governor says the hasty and inconsiderate action of the seceding States does not meet our approval, but Kentuckians will never stand by with folded arms while those States, struggling for their constitutional rights, are beind appointing a committee to report an Ordinance of Secession, Hon. Herschel V. Johnson introduced a series of resolutions as a substitute for those adopted, looking to co- operation and inviting a Convention of the Southern States at Atlanta, in February. The resolutions were lost. During the debate which took place Hon. A. H. Stephens said that if Georgia determined to secede, the sooner she did so the better. At night the flag of independence waved from the Capitol, cannon were fire
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], "the law and the Testimony." (search)
te of 208 to 89. The telegraph states that the act will be made nearly unanimous, --we suppose upon the signing of the Ordinance. Georgia was regarded as the most conservative of the far Southern States, and the result of her exfoliation has been regarded as one entirely improbable, by those who were for "exhausting all remedies within the Union." She is gone! What State can now be relied upon by them? Can any one doubt that there will be eight States out of the Union by the last of February? And yet we constantly hear persons talk of "preserving the Union!" The literature of politics does not keep pace with the rapidity of events! The Union is gone, and though it may be re-constructed, it cannot be preserved. In a legal sense, Abraham Lincoln could not now be President; for the Confederacy he was elected to preside over is not in existence. The Gulf States are making the "Views" of General Scott dissolving views. They are relieving South Carolina from the attitude of