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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 167 (search)
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157.-message of Governor Bonham to the Legislature of South-Carolina.
Executive Department, Columbia, April 3, 1863. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
Since your last adjournment a mighty stride toward despotism has been made by the government of the North, indicative of a fixed purpose on the part of the dominant party if possible to conquer and destroy the South.
The sword and purse have been placed almost absolutely at the disposal of their President, in utter disregard of the Federal Constitution, making him virtually a despot.
So far from this exciting a spirit of resistance, as many have vainly expected, from every portion of the North there comes nothing now but the note of preparation for the vigorous prosecution of the unholy war. The most sanguine must have abandoned all hopes of peace from foreign intervention or negotiations; from exhaustion of the enemy's men and means, or from such resistance on the part of his subjects to Lincoln'