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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
— a white flag, with a green Palmetto-tree in the middle, and the motto of South Carolina:--Animis Opibusque Parati; that is, Prepared in mind and resources — ready to give life and property. It was greeted with the roar of cannon a hundred times repeated, and the Marseillaise Hymn by a band. This was followed by the Miserere from II Trovatore, played as a requiem for the departed Union. Full twenty thousand people, it is said, participated in this inauguration of revolution; and the Rev. C. P. Gadsden invoked the blessing of God upon their acts. These ceremonies were followed by speeches (some from Northern men, in Charleston on business), in which the people were addressed as Citizens of the Southern Republic ; and processions filled the streets, bearing from square to square many banners with significant inscriptions. On these banners were the words:--South Carolina goes it alone; God, Liberty, and the State; South Carolina wants no Stripes; Stand to your arms, Palmetto boys