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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Cries of "Put him out," "We want no abolitionists here," followed with hisses, clapping of hands, and the greatest excitement. Mr. May attempted again to speak, but was received with such overwhelming and continued bursts of applause, with shouts of "louder," "hear," and a call for the "Star Spangled Banner," that his voice was drowned, and he at length subsided. Rev. Mr. Strieby next attempted to address the Convention, but with no better success than his predecessor. Russell R. Lowell said that Mr. Strieby desired to say a few words, but was answered with "No, no, no; abolitionists are played out in this city." Mr. Strieby continued --Is this freedom of--? (Voices and hisses, with cries of "Put the nigger out.") Two sets of resolutions were introduced, and among them the following: Whereas, Our glorious Confederacy is crumbling to pieces, and civil war is staring us in the face, and the chief cause thereof has emanated from unscrupulous abolitionist