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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)
while every Secessionist voted and many Unionists abstained, the vote for Union and that for Secession delegates were just about equal. As made up by the Secessionists, they stood: For Secession, 20,448; Against it, 17,296. The vote for Secession is only two-fifths of the vote cast for President just before. The Convention refused--84 to 45--to submit their act to a vote of the people. In Texas, a Convention — called, as we have seen — assembled at Austin, January 28th, passed February 1, 1861. an Ordinance of Secession: Yeas 166; Nays 7. This ordinance was submitted to a popular vote, and ratified by a considerable majority; it being very much safer, in most districts, to vote Secession than not at all, and not to vote at all than to vote Union. Arkansas, in spite of her Governor's reticence, was blest with a Convention; November 16, 1860. her Legislature voting a call for one; but her popular vote showed a Union majority, and the conspirators were baffled for the time