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The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], From South Carolina. (search)
From South Carolina. The Feeling in Charleston — Arming of the Fire Companies — Flag for the Southern Confederacy--Resignation of the Federal Officers — Action in the South Carolina Legislature--Speech of Edmund Ruffin, of Va., &c., &c.,
The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
profound silence, and during its delivery many of the spectators were in tears. Jas. Connor, the U. S. District Attorney, then made a brief address also resigning his office. At night, a large crowd assembled and serenaded Judge Magrath, Mr. Connor, and the U. S. officers of the port who had resigned. John Laurens, the naval officer of the port, in a card in the papers declines resigning at this time, believing that his duty to the city forbids it. A Columbia, S. C., Wednesday night, Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia, was serenaded at the Congress House, and addressed a large gathering. A dispatch to the Courier says: He said the question now before the country he had studied for years. It had been the one great idea of his life. The defence of the South, he verily believed, was only to be secured through the lead of South Carolina. As old as he was, he had come here to join them in that lead. He wished Virginia was as ready as South Carolina; but unfortunately she was not; bu