ern States were much in need of sympathy in the fast ripening purpose of the Northern States to invade our institutions and destroy them.
More than that, it was hoped that if Texas could be well supplied with African slaves in order to protect herself against Northern interference, she would readily consent to divide her vast and bounteous area into five slave States, thus checking in the Senate the tide of Congressional usurpation of Southern rights.
The Southern Commercial Convention of 1858, met, according to appointment, at Montgomery.
The membership was so great that the State capitol could not by any means contain the meeting.
It was the annual season of empty cotton warehouses at that cotton shipping port, when, perhaps, 100,000 bales each year were loaded on steamers for Mobile.
An immense brick cotton warehouse, thoroughly lighted, was hastily floored, and plank benches provided for the meetings of the convention.
It was a most noble gathering of men—the educated, earn
Creek, Battle of, 324.
Sanders, Palmer, killed, 141.
Scott, Colonel W. C., 44.
Secession, Right of, 61, 114; advocated by Massachusetts, 65; by the N. Y. Tribune, 67; cause of, 81.
Seddon, James A., 317.
Sedgwick, General, John, killed, 37.
Seward, W. H., 375.
Sharpsburg, Battle of, 49, 200.
Sheridan, General P. H., 173, 314.
Slavery, Virginia did not fight for, 76; pro-tested against continuation of, 77; the emancipation proclamation, 64.
Slave trade, Debate on the, in 1858, 99.
Smith, Mrs. F. H., 184, 259
South, Vindication of the, 60; cause of the, 119.
Southern Historical Society-Its history, 344.
Stanton, E. M., 369.
Star Spangled Banner, 120.
Stephens, Alex. H., 375.
Steuart, R. D., 176.
Stewart, Colonel W. H., 205, 383.
Stiles, Major, Robert, 17, 349.
Stiles, Rev. Joseph C., D. D., 17.
Stonewall, The C. S. gunboat, 219.
Stonewall Jackson Camp, C. V.. 377.
Stuart, General J. E. B., 303.
Sumerton road, Engagement on the, 208.
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