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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
d our posterity the rights we could not enjoy in the Union, claim and exercise the right to withdraw from it." Action of the border States--letter from A. O. P. Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson, of Tennessee, Gen. Jackson's friend and editor, and at present Senator from Tennessee, discusses the question of secession in a letter tMr. Nicholson, of Tennessee, Gen. Jackson's friend and editor, and at present Senator from Tennessee, discusses the question of secession in a letter to the Nashville Union. He admits the probability of a dissolution of the Union by the 4th of March, regarding it as certain that South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi will have seceded before that time. He then proceeds to show that on the 4th of March, 1861, when the new administration is installed, the majoren produced by the secessions of the cotton States. In view of these facts, the action of the middle and border Southern States becomes, in the opinion of Mr. Nicholson, a momentous subject for consideration. He contends that the influence of these States should be so exerted as to prevent a collision between the seceding Sta