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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
, if no more, constituting the very garden of America, have at last come to look upon our Union as no longer desirable — aye, as no longer endurable The spirit of the American Union has been departing by slow but sure degrees for nearly a whole generation, and now, we fear, it is gone. The cold, lifeless, and decaying form alone remains, soon to he hurried away by the mere formal execution of plans of secession already conceived and matured. The position of South Carolina. Senator Wigfall, of Texas, an extreme disunionist, defined in his speech Thursday the intentions of South Carolina: South Carolina, he assured the Republican Senators, would be out of the Union before this day week. Immediately on the passage of the seceding ordinance a Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, accredited to the United States Government, would be dispatched to Washington, fully empowered to negotiate for the recognition of the sovereignty of South Carolina, which would b