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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
brook the idea of submission to the rule of the baboon, Abe Lincoln--a fifth-rate lawyer, a broken down hack of a politician, a fanatic, an abolitionist. I, for one, would prefer an hour of virtuous liberty to a whole eternity of bondage under Northern, Yankee, wooden nutmeg rule. The halter is the only argument that should be used against the submissionists [that is to say, loyal men in the State], and I predict that it will soon, very soon, be in force. We have glorious news from Tallahatchie. Seven Tory submissionists [Union men] were hanged there in one day, and the so-called Union candidates, having the wholesome dread of hemp before their eyes, are not canvassing the county; therefore the heretical dogma of submission, under any circumstances, disgraces not. their county. Compromise! Let us have no such word in our vocabulary. . . . No concession of the scared Yankees will now prevent secession. We are now threatened with internecine war. The Yankees are an inferior