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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)
n giving the secession movement a decisive impulse. The popular mind was everywhere excited by inflammatory speeches. Some resistance was, however, met with; Mr. Stephens, who was soon to become the Vice-President of the Confederacy, was then opposed to separation; but his protests against that measure had no effect, inasmuch asas chosen President. In order to conciliate those who still cherished a lingering attachment to the Union, the Vice-Presidency was conferred upon their chief, Mr. Stephens of Georgia, who, after fighting secession, had followed the fortunes of his State. The first bond which was to unite all the insurgents of the South together o with biblical tradition; and that in re-establishing it in a formal manner, the founders of the Constitution at Montgomery had achieved, if we are to believe Mr. Stephens, a revolution fruitful of beneficial results for the future of civilization. In the mean time, the slave States which had not broken up their relations wit