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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 22 (search)
XXII.
Secession.
Legislature called
Gov. Gist's Message
Senator Chesnut's speech
Boyce
Moses
Trenholm
McGowan
Mullins
Ruffin
Judge Magrath resigns
military Convention in Georgia
votes to secede
facilities to Disunion
Houston
Letcher
Magofiln
Conway
C. F. Jackson
Alex. H. Stephens
S. C. Convention
Ore Southern States in withdrawing from the present Union, and forming a separate Southern Confederacy.
These resolves coming up for consideration on the 9th, Mr. McGowan, of Abbeville, made a zealous effort to stem the furious current; pleading earnestly and plausibly for Cooperation — that is, for consultation with other Slave as to the breeze, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale.
Mr. Mullins, of Marion, followed; and his reply to McGowan's speech is worthy of record here, since it clearly betrays the consciousness of the disunionists that they were a lean minority of the Southern people, who might
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)