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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 8: attitude of the Border Slave-labor States, and of the Free-labor States. (search)
ed to appoint a day for the election of delegates. A majority of twelve thousand voted in favor of a convention. An election was held, when, out of about forty thousand votes, there was a popular majority of about six thousand for Union delegates. How that Convention was managed by the conspirators, and the people were cheated, will be considered hereafter. We have now observed the revolutionary movements in the Slave-labor States down to the so-called secession of seven of them; February 1, 1861. their preparations for a General Convention, at the beginning of February, to form a confederacy; and the construction of machinery, in the form of State conventions, for sweeping most of the other Slave-labor States into the vortex of revolution. Let us see what, in the mean time, was done in the matter in the Free-labor States, beginning with New England. Maine, lying on the extreme eastern border of the Republic, and adjoining the British possessions, had, in 1860, a population
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
n, as the representative of Alabama, duly authorized to negotiate with the Government of the United States in reference to the forts, arsenals, and custom houses in that State, and the debt of the United States. He approached the President February 1, 1861. through Senator C. C. Clay, Jr., who expressed his desire that when Judge might have an audience, he should present his credentials and enter upon the proposed negotiations. Letter of Senator Clay to the President, February 1, 1861. The February 1, 1861. The President placed Mr. Judge on the same footing with Mr. Hayne, as only a distinguished private gentleman, and not as an embassador; whereupon Senator Clay wrote an angry letter to the President, February 1. too foolish in matter and manner to deserve a place in history. The Sovereign State of Alabama then withdrew, in the person of Mr. Judge, who argued that the course of the President implied either an abandonment of all claims to the National property within the limits of his State, or a des