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n of the United States, as returned by the Census of 1860, somewhat exceeded Thirty-one Millions,
31,443,79and genius for the art of war. The Northern youth of 1860 were not nearly so familiar with the use of the huntn remains essentially unchanged.
The Republicans of 1860 purposed no more than the Secessionists a speedy andhis own heart, who left the service, at the close of 1860, in precisely that state which was deemed most favorhern opinion which induced the Secession movement of 1860-61, and are therefore essential contributions to the, and in prospect of the Presidential nomination for 1860, as follows:
Clarendon Hotel, Jan. 6, 1860.
fight the battle with you as the standard-bearer, in 1860, than under the auspices of any other leader.
The ftive speakers and journals throughout the canvass of 1860, and thence down to the collision at Sumter.
Even th a considerable free population — were returned, in 1860, as containing each less than a hundred slaves.
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Davis in the Baltimore city district, by 8,424 votes to 6,214, received the unanimous and ardent support of tho Secessionists, and, as afterward appeared, for very good reasons. and Delaware.
Delaware had elected George P. Fisher (Unionist), in 1860, by the combined vote of the Lincoln and Bell parties — giving him 257 majority over Biggs (Breckinridge); while Reed (Douglas) drew away 761 votes. Tennessee had not yet chosen Representatives; and, when she did choose, at her regular State elect--Thomas A. R. Nelson — being arrested by the Rebels while on his way to Washington, regained his liberty by renouncing the Union and professing adherence to the Rebellion.
Of the seceded States, only Arkansas chose Representatives to Congress in 1860; and these renounced their seats by open and active adhesion to the Southern Confederacy.
In the Senate, the four States first named were fully represented; while Andrew Johnson was present from Tennessee, making 44 in all. Western Virginia had c
outhern Confederacy
full delegation sent to the Congress at Richmond
Richard Hawes finally declared Governor.
we have seen
P. 492-7. that Kentucky emphatically, persistently, repeatedly, by overwhelming popular majorities, refused — alike before and after the formal inauguration of war by the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter--to ally herself with the Rebellion, or to stand committed to any scheme looking to Disunion in whatever contingency.
Her Democratic Governor and Legislature of 1860-61, with most of her leading Democratic, and many of her Whig, politicians, were, indeed, more or less cognizant of the Disunion conspiracy, and were more or less intimate and confidential with its master-spirits.
But they looked to very different ends.
The Southrons proper, of the school of Calhoun, Rhett, Yancey, and Ruffin, regarding Disunion as a chief good under any and all circumstances, made its achievement the great object of their life-long endeavor, and regarded Slavery in the ter
