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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
aid a message from Milledgeville, Georgia. This State is ready to assert her rights and independence. The leading men are eager for the business. --There is a great deal of excitement here, said a dispatch from Washington City; several extreme Southern men, in office, have donned the Palmetto cockade, Made of blue silk ribbon, with a button in the center, bearing the image of a Palmetto-tree. and declared themselves ready to march South. --If your State secedes, said another, from Richmond, Virginia, we will send you troops of volunteers to aid you. --Placards are posted about the city, said a message from New Orleans, calling a convention of those favorable to the organization of a corps of Minute-men. The Governor is all right. --Be firm, said a second dispatch from Washington; a large quantity of arms will be shipped South from the Arsenal here, to-morrow. The President is perplexed. Secession Cookade. His feelings are with the South, but he is afraid to assist them openly
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
re were no electoral tickets therein. These were North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas. The electors of South Carolina were chosen by the State Legislature. Many of these politicians beggo. I consider Georgia and Florida as certain. Alabama probable. Then Mississippi must go. But I want Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia; and Maryland will not stay behind long. . . . As soon as our mechanics, our merchat to form a Federal Union with all the Slave-labor States, the Territory of New Mexico, and the Indian Territory west of Arkansas, under the name and style of the United States of America, and according to the tenor and effect of the Constitution of , and the influence of a strong Union feeling, 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 Tennessee, Is
France (France) (search for this): chapter 2
tment, he frequently interrupted the speaker, sometimes with tones of anger, and sometimes with those of scorn. These did not disturb the equanimity of his competitor in the least. With perfect coolness, courtesy, and even gentleness, he .went forward in his work of apparently endeavoring to stay the rising tide of revolution against the Government he professed to love so well, defending 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 exercised by kings and favored classes. This principle of popular sovereignty, however much derided lately, is the foundation of our institutions. Constitutions are but the channels through which the popular will may be expressed. Our Constitution came from the people. They made it, and they alone may rightfully unmake it. . . . I believe in the power of the people
Newton (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
t the said Government as worthless, impotent, and a nuisance. C. G. Gunther, Foreman, and nineteen others Florida, the most dependent upon the Union for its prosperity of all the. States, and the recipient of most generous favors from the National Government, was, by the action of its treasonable politicians, and especially by its representatives in Congress, made the theater of some of the earliest and most active measures for the destruction of the Republic. Its Legislature met at Tallahassee on the 26th of November, and its Governor, Madison S. Perry, in his message at the opening of the session, declared that the domestic peace and future prosperity of the State depended upon secession from their faithless and perjured confederates. He alluded to the argument of some, that no action should be taken until they knew whether the policy of the new Administration would be hostile to their interests or not; and, with the gravity of the most earnest disciple of Calhoun, he flippa
Savannah River (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ion. This avowal of Mr. Calhoun, then a leading Democratic member of Congress, that the politicians of the South were determined to rule the Republic, or ruin it, was made. forty-eight years before the great rebellion occurred. Under the lead of Calhoun, the politicians of South Carolina. attempted a rebellion about thirty years before, but failed.--met at the house of James H. Hammond (son of a New England schoolmaster, and an extensive land and slave holder, near the banks of the Savannah River), to consult upon a plan of treasonable operations. Hammond was then a member of the United States Senate, pledged by solemn oath to see that the Republic received no hurt; and yet, under his roof, he met in conclave a band of men, like himself sworn to be defenders of his native land, from foes without and foes within, to plot schemes for the ruin of that country. At his table, and in secret session in his library, sat William H. Gist, then Governor of South Carolina; ex-governor Jame
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the Georgia Legislature, 58. Secession in Mississippi, 59. Secession in Alabama and Florida, 60.spapers advocated it. The True Southron, of Mississippi, suggested the propriety of stimulating the 20th of November:--My allegiance is due to Mississippi Ten years before, this man, then engaged wrote to General Quitman, then Governor of Mississippi, on whom the mantle of Calhoun, as chief cos to the people of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, urging upon them the importanrnors or legislatures thereof, that the State of Mississippi had called a Convention, to consider the conspirators), submitted to the people of Mississippi, before the close of November, 1860, a planacy. After reciting the ordinance by which Mississippi was created a State of the Union, and propo therefrom, the plan proposed that the State of Mississippi should consent to form a Federal Union he United States, so far as they applied to Mississippi, until the new Confederation should be orga[11 more...]
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
sissippi, 59. Secession in Alabama and Florida, 60. proceedings in Louisiana, 61. attitude of Texas and North Carolina, 62. disunion long contemplated, 63. The choice of Presidential electors,were North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas. The electors of South Carolina were chosen by the State Legislature. Many of these politiciansorgia and Florida as certain. Alabama probable. Then Mississippi must go. But I want Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia; and Maryland will not stay behind long. . . . Asade for that purpose. When they asked for more territory, they received Louisiana, Florida, and Texas. We have always had the control of the General Government, he said, and can yet, if we remain ingreat topic of the day, and adjourned on the 13th, to meet again on the 23d of January. 1861. Texas, under the leadership of its venerable Governor, Samuel Houston, and the influence of a strong U
Plaquemine (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e people. Slidell had resolved to become a member of Congress. He was rich, but, was, personally, too unpopular to expect votes enough to elect him. He resorted to fraud. None but freeholders might vote in Louisiana. Slidell bought, at Government price (one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre), one hundred and eighty-eight acres of land, and deeded it, in small parcels, to four thousand eight hundred and eight of the most degraded population of New Orleans. They went to his district (Plaquemine), where their land lay, and, in a body, gave him their votes for Congress, and elected him! That was in 1842. his unholy ambition, his lust for aristocratic rank and power, and his enmity to republican institutions. He had tried in vain, during the summer and autumn of 1860, to engage many of the leading men in Louisiana in treasonable schemes. With others, such as Thomas O. Moore (the Governor of the State), and a few men in authority, he was more successful. Among the leading newspap
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
our hearts are with the South, and should they ever need our hands to assist in achieving our independence, we shall not be found wanting in the hour of danger. In the first act of the melodrama of the rebellion, there were some broad farces. One of these. is seen in the action of the Grand Jury of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama. That body made, the following presentment at the December Term, 1860:-- That the several States of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Ohio, and others, have nullified, by acts of their several Legislatures, several laws enacted by the Congress of the Confederation for the protection of persons and property; and that for many years said States have occupied an attitude of hostility to the interests of the people of the said Middle District of Alabama. And the said Federal Government, having failed to execute its enactments for the protection of the property and interests of said Middle District, and this court
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 2
ehension as hope. You will object to the term Democrat. Democracy, in its original philosophical sense, is indeed incompatible with Slavery, and the whole system of Southern society. Yet, if we look back, what change will you find made in any of our State Constitutions, or in our legislation, in its general course, for the last fifty years, which was not in the direction of Democracy? Do not its principles and theories become daily more fixed in our practice?--I had almost said, in the epinions of our people, did I not remember with pleasure the great improvement of opinion in regard to the abstract question of Slavery. And if such is the case, what have we to hope for the future? I do not hesitate to say, that if the question is raised between Carolina and the Federal Government, and the latter prevails, the last hope of Republican Government, and, I fear, of Southern civilization, is gone. Russia will then be a better Government than ours. See pages 92 and 93 of this volume.
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