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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
the second will consist of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Western Virginia, and so along down the Blue Ridge, taking in Western Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas. The third will consist of South Carolina. Georgia, East Florida, Eastern Virginia, and perhaps Maryland and Delaware. The Pacific States will constitute the fourth. The General treats the exclusion of the grain-growing States of the West from a direct communication with the Gulf of Mexico as an impossibility. They will have free course to go down the Mississippi, and will insist upon Pensacola as a naval depot. He also gives, it is said, an elaborate statement of the disposition of the military forces of the nation, and the condition and needs of the fortified places. County meetings in Virginia. In Wythe, Halifax, Northampton and London, meetings were held last week, at all of which resolutions were adopted declaring that this is the time for a final settlemen