t there was any serious contest at all. With all this, there is strong ground for belief that insurrection gained its ends at last only through chicane, deceit, and fraud.
Not a single Cotton State but Texas dared to submit its Ordinance of Secession to a direct vote of the people.
The struggle assumed its most determined phase in Georgia.
She was the Empire State of the South, and, therefore, indispensable to the conspiracy, in which distinguished citizens of hers-Governor Brown, Secretary Cobb, Senators Toombs and Iverson, and others — were conspicuous ringleaders.
The more rabid fire-eaters desired that the Legislature should at once pass an act of secession; Stephens and other conservatives opposed this course.
The Legislature were not elected for such a purpose, said he. They came here to do their duty as legislators.
They have sworn to support the Constitution of the United States.
They did not come here to disrupt this government.
I am, therefore, for submitting all
et seq., 108
C.
Cabinet, decision of, with regard to Fort Sumter, 51
Cadwalader, General, 157
Cairo, 128, 132, 134
Campbell, Justice, 54; his treachery, 35, 57, 69
Carrick's Ford, 152 et seq.
Case, General, Secretary of State, 24; resigns, 26; supports the Union cause, 76
Centreville, Va., 177
Charleston, S. C., situation of, 20, 79
Cheat River, 146, 152
Chinn House, the, 194
Chambersburg, Pa., 156
Cincinnati, 132, 140
Clay, Henry, 127
Cobb, Secretary, Howell, 12, 17, 20, 26, 42
Cockeysville, 90
Columbia, District of, 83
Columbus, 134 et seq.
Confederacy, Southern, first formal proposal of, 26; established, 41; military resources of, 79; sends diplomatic agents to Europe, 79; natural resources of, 81
Confederates resolve to begin the war, 60
Constitution of the Confederate States adopted, 41
Cox, General J. D., 154
Crawford, Commissioner, 57
Crittenden, John J., 76
Cub Run, 200
Cumberland, Department of t