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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1860., [Electronic resource], The secession movement at the South. (search)
rong secession speeches were made to-day at the presentation of a cane to Capt. Berry, of the steamship Columbia. To-morrow is the appointed day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in view of the crisis, and will be generally observed. Mr. Keitt arrived in the city to-night at ten o'clock. A large procession of citizens, headed by a band, marched to the Charleston Hotel to serenade him. Mr. Keitt responded in a most eloquent and fiery speech. He said that South Carolina was pledged byMr. Keitt responded in a most eloquent and fiery speech. He said that South Carolina was pledged by every solemn obligation to secede from the Federal Union. Three weeks ago she had elected on that issue a Legislature which unanimously recommended separate action. It was infamy to retrace the step. Out of his district — Orangeburg — he could say that of the sixteen hundred votes polled, not one would be for submission. In Colleton, Beaufort, Barnwell, Pedee, and ever in the up country, people were a unit on this question. He closed amid great applause. Virginia. The South Caroli