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I. April, 1861
My flight from the North and escape into Virginia.
Revolutionary scene at Richmond.
the Union Convention passes the ordinance of secession.
great excitement prevails in the South.
April 8
Burlington, New Jersey.-The expedition sails to-day from New York.
Its purpose is to reduce Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, and relieve Fort Sumter, invested by the Confederate forces.
Southern born, and editor of the Southern Monitor, there seems to be no alternative but to depart immediately.
For years the Southern Monitor, Philadelphia, whose motto was The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is, has foreseen and foretold the resistance of the Southern States, in the event of the success of.a sectional party inimical to the institution of African slavery, upon which the welfare and existence of the Southern people seem to depend.
And I must depart immediately; for I well know that the first gun fired at Fort Sumter will be the signal for an outburst of
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 38 (search)