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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1860., [Electronic resource], Letter from Secretary Floyd. (search)
to secede, not only from the very nature of a federal compact, but by express reservation on the part of some of them at the time of entering the Confederacy, are, in five or six instances, preparing to secede from their Union with partner States which have converted the legislative branch of the Federal Government into a more theatre for agitating the slavery question — into a rostrum from which to pour forth over the world denunciations and calumnies against their social institutions. Patrick Henry, one of the wisest amongst the founders of free institutions in this country, feared and predicted their overthrow by the agency of the Federal Government. If he could have foreseen the use which one section of the Confederacy would make of the House of Congress, for assailing the other — employing entire sessions, to the neglect of nearly all other business, in the work of agitation — expending large sums of the public money in the publication of incendiary debates, and burdening the p<