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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 44: Charleston Convention, 1860. (search)
hich dyed the virgin soil of Kansas with the blood of those who should have stood shoulder to shoulder in subduing the wilderness; for the frauds which corrupted the ballot-box, and made the name of election a misnomer, let the authors of Squatter Sovereignty and the fomenters of sectional hatred answer to the posterity, for whose peace and happiness the Fathers formed the Federal compact. In these scenes of strife were trained the incendiaries who afterward invaded Virginia under the leave votes made of the minority the majority. The balloting proceeded, New York forced the two-thirds rule on the convention, but Mr. Douglas's friends stood a solid phalanx around him, and would vote for no person or thing but him, and Squatter Sovereignty was his shibboleth. No conclusion could be reached, and the convention adjourned to meet at Baltimore on June 18th. It was always a proud memory to Mr. Davis that Massachusetts gave him forty-nine votes, in unbroken succession, a test