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Madison (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
and commerce of the South, and the utter extinguishment of all hopes of future advancement in art, science, literature, and the development of the yet hidden resources in the region below the Susquehanna, the Potomac, and the Ohio, as a consequence of the domination in the National Government of their bitter enemies, as they unjustly termed the people of the Free-labor States. This false teaching was not new. It was begun by John C. Calhoun, and had been kept up ever since. It was so in Madison's later days. In a letter to Henry Clay, cited by Dr. Sargeant, in his admirable pamphlet, entitled, England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy, that statesman and patriot said:--It is painful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South, by imputations against the North of unconstitutional designs on the subject of Slavery. Madison and Clay were both slaveholders. Again, the former wrote: The inculcated impression of a permanent incompatibility of interests between
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n of National officers, 48. rejoicings in Charleston and Columbia excitement in Slave-labor States, 49. Secession in the s H. Thornwell, President of a Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., one of the most eminent scholars and theologians in th obliged to you if you will write me soon and fully from Columbia. It is impossible to write to you, with the constant int meet in extraordinary session, in the old State House at Columbia, on Monday, the 5th of November, for the purpose of choosof the Southern States, he said, The old State House at Columbia. justify the conclusion that the secession of South of age. He had now hastened from his home in Virginia to Columbia, to urge the importance of immediate secession. I have svening of the 7th, November, 1860. a dispatch went up to Columbia from Charleston, saying that many of the National Edmunomised abundant fruit. There was intense excitement at Columbia, on the morning after the election. Governor Gist was th
Crawfordsville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
mbs and Cobb, and for other demagogues, he added:--Some of our public men have failed in their aspirations; that is true, and from that comes a great part of our troubles. As soon as prolonged applause ended, Mr. Stephens said:--No, there is no failure of this Government yet. We have made great advancement under the Constitution, and I cannot but hope that we shall advance higher still. Let us be true to our cause. In a private letter, written eleven days after this speech (dated Crawfordsville, Ga., Nov. 25, 1860 ), Mr. Stephens revealed the fact that in him the patriot was yet subservient to the politician — that his aspirations were really more sectional than national. He avowed that his attachment to Georgia was supreme, and that the chief object of his speech at Milledgeville, on the 14th, was not so much for the preservation of the Union as the security of unity of action in his State. The great and leading object aimed at by me, in Milledgeville, he said, was to produce
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
pected wrong and oppression ; See The Church and, the Rebellion, by R. L. Stanton, D. D., of Kentucky. and thousands upon thousands of men and women, regarding them as oracles of wisdom and truth, e conspirators, see a volume entitled The Church and the Rebellion, by R. L. Stanton, D. D., of Kentucky. The common people --the non-slaveholders and the small slaveholders — whom the ruling clasvery as Mr. Stephens, once said on the floor of Congress, in rebuke of disunion sentiments:--If Kentucky, to-morrow, unfurls the banner of resistances I never will fight under that banner; I owe a par, held back, when invited by conspirators to plunge into secession. So did Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, all Slave-labor States. The Governor of Tennesse Jay's Treaty with Great Britain should be ratified by the United States Senate; and the famous Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, in which the doctrine of State Supremacy was broadly inculcat
Africa (search for this): chapter 2
he social scale, with the great proprietors of lands and sinews. There is ample evidence on record to show that Yancey, Davis, Stephens, and other leaders in the great rebellion were advocates of the foreign Slave-trade. Southern newspapers advocated it. The True Southron, of Mississippi, suggested the propriety of stimulating the zeal of the pulpit by founding a prize for the best sermon in favor of free trade in negroes. For the purpose of practically opening the horrible traffic, an African labor-supply Association was formed, of which De Bow, editor of the principal organ of the oligarchy, was made president. Southern legislatures discussed the question. John Slidell, in the United States Senate, urged the propriety of withdrawing American cruisers from the coast of Africa, that the slavers might not be molested; and the administration of Mr. Buchanan was made to favor this scheme of the great cotton-planters, by protesting against the visitation of suspected slave-bearing
Palmetto (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
arleston was unbounded and irrepressible. The conspirators and their friends greeted each other with signs of the greatest exultation. They grasped each other's hands, and some of them cordially embraced, in the ecstasy of their pleasure. The Palmetto flag was everywhere unfurled; and from the crowded streets went up cheer after cheer for a Southern Confederacy. All day the enthusiasm was kept up by speeches, harangues, and the booming of cannon; and, at evening, the city was illuminated by --The bark James Gray, owned by Cushing's Boston line, lying at our wharves, said a message from Charleston, has hoisted the Palmetto flag, and fired a salute of fifteen guns, under direction of her owner. The Minute-men throng the streets with Palmetto cockades in their hats. There is great rejoicing here. Stimulated by these indications of sympathy, the South Carolina Legislature took bold and vigorous action. Joint resolutions were offered in both Houses, providing for the calling of a
Shenandoah (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e elevation of the negro to social equality with the white man; and the destruction of Slavery, upon which, they alleged, had rested in the past, and must forever rest in the future, all substantial prosperity in the cotton-growing States. They held the Republican party responsible for John Brown's acts at Harper's Ferry, For the purpose of liberating the slaves of Virginia, John Brown, an enthusiast, with a few followers, seized Harper's Ferry, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, in October, 1859, as a base. of operations. He failed. He was arrested by National and Virginia troops, and was hanged, in December following, by the authorities of Virginia. and declared that his raid was the forerunner of a general and destructive invasion of the Slavelabor States by the fanatical hordes of the North. They cited the publications and speeches of the Abolitionists of the North during the past thirty years; the legislation in the same section unfriendly to slavery;
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 2
t, before Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, was a part of the plan of operations. The successful, unrestricted installation of Lincoln, wrote this viper, nestled in the warm bosom of the Republic, is the beginning of the end of Slavery. Letter to Mr. Peterson, of Mississippi. It fell into the hands of United States troops while in that region, in 1863. Thompson afterward took up arms against the Republic, plotted the blackest crimes against the people of his country while-finding an asylum in Canada, and was finally charged with complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. Floyd, indicted for enormous frauds on the Government while in office, perished ignobly, after wearing the insignia of a brigadier-general among the insurgent enemies of his country. The Governors and Legislatures of several of the Slave-labor States took early action against the National Government. The South Carolina politicians moved first. They were traditionally rebellious, gloried in their turbulence, an
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
was so in Madison's later days. In a letter to Henry Clay, cited by Dr. Sargeant, in his admirable pamphlet, entitled, England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy, that statesman and patriot said:--It is painful to see the unceasing eby laws of entail and primogeniture. An aristocracy is patriarchal, parental, and representative. The feudal barons of England were, next to the fathers, the most perfect representative government. The king and barons represented everybody, becauding its claim to justice and beneficence. The great difference between our country and all others, such as France, and England, and Ireland, is, he said, that here there is popular sovereignty, Robert Toombs. while there sovereignty is exercisef the Union as their remedy for the provocation. They threatened to dissolve the Union in 1795, if Jay's Treaty with Great Britain should be ratified by the United States Senate; and the famous Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, in which th
Danville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s, who was among the prisoners, speaks of him in his Journal, kept while in confinement in Richmond, as a patriarchal citizen, whose long locks extended over his shoulders, whitened by the snows of more than seventy winters. Ruffin did not appear prominently in the war that ensued. He survived the conflict, in which he lost all of his property. On Saturday, the 17th of June, 1865, he committed suicide by blowing off the top of his head with a gun, at the residence of his son, near Danville, in Virginia. He left a note, in which he said--I cannot survive the liberties of my country. The wretched man was then almost eighty years of age. He had now hastened from his home in Virginia to Columbia, to urge the importance of immediate secession. I have studied the question now before the country, he said, for years. It has been the one great idea of my life. The defense of the South, I verily believe, is only to be secured through the lead of South Carolina. Old as I am, I have come
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