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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
and South, appealed in vain for conciliatory measures. In the North, immense meetings declared themselves ready to support the Union and the government that Mr. Lincoln was about to form. Congress, acting under the pressure of public opinion, authorized the issue of ten millions of dollars in Treasury bonds, to meet the most urgent national expenses, but the President refused to take any steps to sustain the Federal authority, and the loyal members of his cabinet—his Secretary of State, General Cass, among others —withdrew, because they would have no connection with a government which delivered up the country to its enemies. South Carolina was the first to set up openly the standard of rebellion, and on the 20th of December her convention passed an ordinance of secession, declaring the Union severed, and demanding at the same time all the Federal property situated on its soil. This demand was a declaration of open war, unless the President, by complying with it, should himself sa