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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 10: Peace movements.--Convention of conspirators at Montgomery. (search)
Confederacy. There will be solicitations enough from South Carolina for offices. But keep this to yourself. --Autograph Letter of R. B. Rhett: to his Son, February 11, 1861. Robert Barnwell Rhett, the most belligerent of the demagogues of the Palmetto State --the perfect representative of the disloyal politicians of South Carolever been wise in pushing myself forward to office or power, and, I suppose, never will be. I cannot change. Prepare for disappointment. --Autograph Letter, February 11, 1861. Memminger aspired to be secretary of the treasury, and James Chesnut, Jr., who had patriotically made a sacrifice of his seat in the National Senate, Seeouth, that within two months a whole State could not take a fort defended by but seventy men. The thing is absurd. We must be disgraced. --Autograph Letter, February 11, 1861. The Alabamians seem to have been special objects of Rhett's dislike. Alabama, he said, has the meanest delegation in this body. There is not a statesma