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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
d others, stirred up the people to revolt. He had been active in procuring the passage of joint resolutions by the Legislature of that State, long before the Presidential election, February 24, 1860. which provided, in the event of the election of the Republican candidate, for a convention to consider what should be done; in other words, to declare the secession of the State from the Union, in accordance with the long and well-devised plan of the conspirators. So early as October, Herschell V. Johnston, the candidate for Vice-President on the Douglas ticket, declared, in a speech in the Cooper Institute, New York, October 24. that Alabama was ripe for revolt, in the event of Mr. Lincoln's. election--pledged, he said, to withdraw from the Union, and has appropriated two hundred thousand dollars for military contingencies. Report of Johnson's speech, in the New York World, October 25, 1860. In an address to the people of the state, early in November, the Governor declared that, i