The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
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The Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)stages The first, beginning with the news that Lincoln was elected, closed with the news, sent broadcast over the South from Charleston, that Federal troops had taken possession of Fort Sumter on the night of the 28th of December. During this period the likelihood of secession was the topic of discu The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)ssion in the lower South What to do in case the lower South seceded was the question which perplexed the upper South, In this period no state north ofThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
South Carolina contemplated taking the initiative. In the Southeastern and Gulf States immediate action of some sort was expected Whether it would beThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)of their people in the event of a Republican victory. The first to assemble was the convention of South Carolina, which organized at Columbia, on December 17.1860. Two weeks earlier Congress had met Northerners and Southerners had at once joined issue on their relation in the Union The House had app The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)ointed its committee of thirty-three to consider the condition of the country So unpromising indeed from the Southern point of view had been the earlyThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
discussions of this committee that a conference of Southern members of Congress had sent out their famous address To Our Constituents: "The argument The Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)tees. In our judgment the Republicans are resolute in the purpose to grant nothing that will or ought to satisfy the South. Vite are satisfied the honor, safety, and independence of the Southern people require the organization of a Southern Confederacy-a result to be obtained only by separate state The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)secession" Among the Signers of this address were the two statesmen who had in native talent no superiors at Washington-Judah p. Senjamin of LouisianaThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi.The appeal To Our Constituents was not the only assurance of support tendered to the convention of South Carolina.The Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)abama made addresses before the convention on the night of the 17th of December Both reiterated views which during two days of lobbying they had disseminated in Columbia "on all proper occasions ■ Their argument, summed up in Elmore's report to Governor Moore of Alabama, was ‘ that the only course t The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)o unite the Southern States in any plan of cooperation which could promise safety was fo- South Carolina to take the lead and secede at once without dThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
elay or hesitation that the only effective plan of cooperation must ensue after one state had seceded ano presented the issue when the plain question The Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson) coercion by the arms of the Government of the United States"Ten years before, in the unsuccessful secession movement of 1850 and 1851, Andrew Pickens Butler, perhaps the ablest South Carolinian then living, strove to arrest the movement by exactly the opposite argument. Though desiring secession, h The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)e threw all his weight against It because the rest of the South was ave'se He charged his opponents, whose leader was Robert Barnwell Rhett, with aimiThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
ng to place the other Southern States ■ in such circumstances that, having a common destiny, they would be compelled to be involved in a common sacrifThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)nor must require the Southern states to take council together ■That acute thinker was now In his grave The bold enthusiast whom he defeated In 1851 had now no opponent that was his match. No great personality resisted the fiery advocates from Alabama and Mississippi. Their advice was accepted. On De The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)cember 20. 1860. the cause that ten years before had failed was successful The convention, having adjourned from Columbia to Charleston, passed an ordThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
inance of secession.Meanwhile, in Georgia, at a hundred meetings, the secession issue was being hotly discussed But there was not yet any certainty whThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)Governor Brown has left an account ascribing the comparative coolness and deliberation of the hour to the prevailing impression that President Buchanan had pledged himself not to alter the military status at Charleston In an interview between South Carolina representatives and the President, the Car The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)olinians understood that such a pledge was given. "It was generally understood by the country/ says Governor Brown, ’that such an agreement, .had beenThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
entered Into and that Governor Floyd of Virginia, then Secretary of War, had expressed his determination to res gn his position in the Cabinet in casThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)uld it occur, as a signal given to the South that reinforcements were to be sent to Charleston and that the coercive policy had been adopted by the Federal Government."While the "canvass in Georgia for members of the state convention was progressing with much interest on both sides." there came sudd The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)enly the news that Anderson had transferred his garrison from Fort Moultrie to the island fortress of Sumter That same day commissioners from South CaThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
rolina, newly arrived at Washington, sought in vain to persuade the President to order Andersen back to Moultrie The Secretary of War made the subjectThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)e of financial irregularities, and Floyd was shrewd enough to use Anderson's coup as an excuse for resigning. See Rhodes. ‘History of the United States.* vol II pp. 225. 236 (note).The Georgia Governor, who had not hitherto been in the front rank of the aggressives. now struck a great blow Senator T The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)oombs had telegraphed from '.'/ashington that Fort Pulaski, guarding the Savannah River, was "in danger." The Governor had reached the same conclusionThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
. He mustered the state militia and seized Fort Pulaski. Early in the morning on January 3.1861, the fort was occupied by Georgia troops. Shortly afteThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson) both States have doubted the propriety of immediate secession. I feel quite confident that recent events have dispelled those doubts from the minds of most men who have, till within the past few days, honestly sustained them.'" The first stage of the secession movement was at an end: the second had The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson) begun.A belief that Washington had entered upon a policy of aggression swept the lower South. The state conventions assembling about this time passedThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
ordinances of secession-Mississippi. January 9. Florida. January 10; Alabama. January 11; Georgia, January 19: Louisiana, January 26; Texas, FebruaryThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)to secece--virtually no one denied the right-but upon the wisdom of invoking the right. Stephens, gloomy and pessimistic, led the opposition. Toombs came down from Washington to take part with the secessionists. From South Carolina and Alabama, both ceaselessly active for secession, commissioners ap The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)peared to lobby at Milledgeville, as commissioners of Alabama and Mississippi had lobbied at Columbia Besides the out-and-out Unionists, there were thThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
ose who wanted to temporize, to threaten the North, and to wait for developments. The motion on which these men and the Unionists made their last stanThe Project GutenbergTHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY by Nathaniel w. StephensonChapter I. The Secession MovementThe secession movement had three distinct s The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)rge Though the temporizers came over to the secessionists, and with them came Stephens, there was still a minority of 89 irreconcilables against the majority numbering 208.■ My allegiance,' said Stephens afterwards, 'was. as I considered it, not due to the United States, or to the people of the Unit The Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)ed States, but to Georgia, in her sovereign capacity. Georgia had never parted with her right to demand the ultimate allegiance of her Citizens •The aThe Day of the Confederacy (Nathaniel W. Stephenson)
ttempt in Georgia to restrain impetuosity and advance with deliberation was paralleled in Alabama, where also the aggressives were determined not to pGọi ngay
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