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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Convention of States at Washington. (search)
mot, Hon. Thos. White, William McKennan, Hon. Wm. M. Meredith. New Jersey.--Charles S. Olden, Robert F. Stockton, Joseph K. Randolph, Rodman M. Price, Peter D. Vroom, Benjamin Williamson, Fred. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas J. Stryker, William C. Alexander. North Carolina.--Thomas Ruffin, John M. Morehead, George Davis, David S. Reid, D. M. Barringer. Maryland.--Reverdy Johnson, William S. Goldsborough, Augustus W. Bradford, John W. Criesfield, J. Dixon Romaine. Kentucky.--James B. Clay, Ex-Gov. Morehead, Jas. Guthrie, Joshua F. Bell, Wm. O. Butler, Chas. A. Wickliffe. Virginia.--John Tyler, James A. Seddon, Wm. C. Rives, Geo. W. Summers, John W. Brockenbrough. Delaware.--Hon. Geo. B. Rodney, Daniel M. Bates, Esq. Hon. John W. Houston, Dr. H. Ridgely, Wm. Cannon, Esq. The above list embraces one Ex-President, one Governor, eight Ex-Governors, one Ex-Attorney General, two Ex-Secretaries of the Treasury, and most of the others are Ex-United States Senators, Sta
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
and power. There was no cause, according to him, for the excitement in the country. The New York Herald had done it all. Here, we have a gentleman who has been a member of Congress, an aspirant for the Presidency, an actor on the political stage for twenty-five years, declaring that there is no cause for the present excitement. Mr.Jefferson said that the abolition cry, in 1820, upon the Missouri question, was like a fire bell in the night, and filled him with alarm for his country. Mr. Clay, in 1850, declared that if the abolition crusade continued, it would dissolve the Union. Numbers of the greatest men of the country might be quoted to the same effect, down to Mr. Fillmore, who, in 1856, declared that the triumph of a sectional party, such as that which elected Lincoln, would dissolve the Union. Mr. Fillmore asked his immense audience, if the case were reversed, and the Southern States, upon a purely sectional issue, were to dictate Presidents to the Union, would they sub