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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 22 (search)
s to protect us. We implore you to stand by us, and by our friends in the Free States; and let us all, the bold. the true and just men in the Free and the Slave States, with a united front, stand by each other, by our principles, by our rights, our equality, our honor, and by the Union under the Constitution. I believe this is the only way to save it; and we can do it. Gov. Elias N. Conway, of Arkansas, transmitted his Annual Message to the new Legislature of that State on the 19th of November, 1860, when nearly all the Slave States were alive with drumming and drilling, Extract from a letter in The New York Herald of Nov. 9, dated Charleston, Nov. 5, 1860. As a mark of the popular inclination toward resistance, it is a fact of some significance that the echoes of the word coercion had hardly reached our borders before the whole State was bristling with spontaneous organizations of Minute-Men — irregular forces, it is true, but, nevertheless, formidable, because arme
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 30 (search)
outlawed and hunted from their State. For weary months and years, she lay helpless and bleeding in the grasp of her blood-thirsty foes, while thousands of her sons were torn from their homes by a merciless conscription, and compelled to fight and die for the traitorous cause they abhorred. The State of North Carolina, though never deliberately and intelligently hostile to the Union, became a much easier prey to the conspirators. Her Democratic Legislature — reconvened at Raleigh, November 19th, 1860--had refused, a month later, to pass a bill to arm the State, though visited and entreated to that end by Hon. Jacob Thompson, then a member of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet; and had adjourned December 22d. without even calling a Convention. This, as we have seen, did not prevent Gov. Ellis taking military possession of the Federal forts near Beaufort and Wilmington (January 2d), on the pretext that, if he did not do it, a mob would! He proceeded to reconvene the Legislature in extra se
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
o the rest, We prefer to be henceforth separated from you, we shall insist they be permitted to go in peace. War is a hideous necessity at best, and a civil conflict, a war of estranged and embittered fellow countrymen, is the most hideous of all wars. Whenever the people of the cotton States shall have definitely and decisively made up their minds to separate from the rest of us, we shall urge that the proper steps be taken to give full effect to their decision. New York Tribune, November 19, 1860.—Now we believe and maintain that the Union is to be preserved only so long as it is beneficial and satisfactory to all parties concerned. We do not believe that any man, any neighborhood, town, county or even State may break up the Union in any transient gust of passion; we fully comprehend that secession is an extreme, an ultimate resort—not a constitutional but a revolutionary remedy. But we insist that this Union shall not be held together by force whenever it shall have ceased t
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
rials lead to that belief. He says that the Southern States should not be satisfied with any guarantees offered by the Northern States, unless they repeal their State laws against the Fugitive Slave Law. If they fail to do this, the Southern States should dissolve the Union. The lawyers of Lowndes county, Alabama, have resolved to return all Northern claims uncollected, and the example will probably soon be followed throughout the Cotton States. South Carolina. Charleston, Nov. 19, 1860.--The government arsenal is constantly guarded by detachments of the Washington Light Infantry. It is generally believed that the pretext about this being a precaution against popular or service outbreak is all fudge. The fact is, that an immense quantity of ammunition is stored there, and people believe the public good requires that it should not be removed. Any attempt to remove it would almost certainly precipitate revolution and bloodshed. The Light Infantry patrols are not admitt
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Letter from Gov. Letcher. (search)
Constitution and the Union. I hold that the election of Abraham Lincoln is not just cause for secession. It is the result of our system of government. The majority of our people pave declared through the ballot box that he is their choice, and the minority should acquiesce. I await your orders. Believing you to be a pure minded statesman, and a true lover of your country, I am, with sentiments of respect, truly your, Jas. S. Brisbin. Please answer. Richmond, Va., Nov. 19, 1860. Sir: --Yesterday morning I received your extraordinary letter of the 15th instant. I am really at a loss to understand what good end you expected to accomplish by the preparation and transmission of it to me. The country is deeply excited. Sectional feeling reigns supreme. The Union is seriously threatened with disruption. Patriots and conservative men of all parties, East, West, North and South, are looking to the future with fearful and alarming apprehensions. The prude
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The New troubles in Kansas. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. The Feeling at the University of Virginia. University of Virginia, Nov. 19th, 1860. Our attention has been called to a statement which has appeared in the Richmond Enquirer, and also in the New York Herald, to the effect that the students of the University of Virginia had passed resolutions declaring themselves in favor of secession, and inviting the Hon. Henry A. Wise to deliver before them an address, setting forth his views of the state of the country. Lest this should place the students of the University in a wrong light, we beg leave to state, through your columns, the facts of the case: On the 13th inst., a notice appeared on the bulletin board, calling a mass meeting at 9 ½ o'clock P. M., for the purpose of taking into consideration the state of the country."--Mean while, at 4 ½ P. M., a number of students assembled in one of the lecture rooms and passed the above-mentioned resolutions. It is estimated t
The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.second crop of Cotton — Lynch law — the disunion feeling — K. G. C.'s &c. Long Point, Washington Co., Tex., November 19th, 1860. Our second growth of cotton bids fair to be much better than the first--more of it, and of a better quality. We have had no killing frost yet. Our District Court has adjourned, after a session of four weeks--one man sent to the Penitentiary for horse-stealing, and three negroes condemned to be hung for murder. A wealthy man in Burleson county, who has frequently been indicted for branding cattle not his own, was tried and acquitted at Gald well last week, but was taken out that night and hung to a tree, close to the Court-house door. Of course, nobody done it. Breckinridge has carried this State by about thirty thousand. The "Lone Star" floats above almost every village and town in the State. A large and enthusiastic mass meeting was held in the Court-house in Brenham last Saturday, and <
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Fatal Accident from burning fluid. (search)
ishop Meade, of Virginia, has appointed the first Friday in January to be observed by the Episcopal Church in this State as a day of fasting and prayer. He hopes the day will not be made one of "strife and debate." but for asking the guidance of God in "the trying times which have come upon us." The following is the letter of Gov. Letcher to the clergymen of Richmond, in reply to their request that he would appoint a day of fasting and prayer to be observed in Virginia: Richmond, Nov. 29, 1860. Gentlemen: I have given due consideration to your request, that I would designate as a day for fasting and prayer the 21st of next month, and would issue a proclamation to that effect. to this request I must decline to accede, for the following reasons: 1. Because it has been an established custom in Virginia, with all my predecessors, from the foundation of the Government to the present day, (with a single exception,) to decline all interference with those matters whi