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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
gust of passion; we fully comprehend that secession is an extreme, an ultimate resort—not a constitutional, but a revolutionary remedy. But we insist that this Union shall not be held together by force whenever it shall have ceased to cohere by the mutual attraction of its parts; and whenever the slave States or the cotton States only shall unitedly and cooly say to the rest, We want to get out of the Union, we shall urge that their request be acceded to. The New York Herald of Friday, November 23, 1860, said: Zzzthe disunion question—a conservative Reaction in the South. We publish this morning a significant letter from Governor Letcher, of Virginia, on the subject of the present disunion excitement in the South; southern constitutional rights, Northern-State acts of nullification, and the position of Virginia in this crisis. * * * To this end would it not be well for the conservative Union men of the city of New York to make a demonstration—a northern movement or conciliat<