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The secessionists in Washington and they are a legion, of all hues and positions are defiant, arrogant, sure that Washington will be taken. One risks to be murdered here. I entered the thus called Cassius Clay Company, organized for the defence of Washington until troops came. For several days patrolled, drilled, and lay several nights on the hard floor.
These prospects must be very alluring, and are partly justified by our slow war, slow policy. I am sure that the like armaments for the secessionists are made by shares owned by various individuals; the individual risk of each shareholder being comparatively insignificant when compared with the prospective gains.
Her undulating stars were fairer to us than the brightest constellations that ever sparkled in the azure fields above. The grossest frauds are often practised by the unscrupulous secessionists in these exchanges. I will give a case that occurred at this time. A rebel soldier was wounded in the head at the first battle of Manassas.
At any rate in this case there is not, and never has been, the slightest justification for doubting that Secessionism was from the first a genuine popular movement, that it was enthusiastically embraced by hundreds of thousands who no more expected ever to own a slave than an English labourer expects to own a carriage and pair; that in this matter the political leaders of the States, and Davis in particular, rather lagged behind than outran the general movement of opinion; that the Secessionists were in the Cotton States a great majority from the first; that they became later as decided a majority in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee; and that by the time the sword was drawn there was behind the Confederate Government a unanimity very rare in the history of revolutions certainly much greater than existed in the colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence.
Nullification was his device for perpetuating the Union while allowing its members relief from possible oppression, but nullification had failed, in fact as in logic. Now the Secessionists went further than Calhoun had ever found occasion to go. They proposed to break up the nation, at first by the withdrawal of their separate States, to be followed by the organization of a Southern Confederacy.
President Buchanan declared in his message that the Southern States had no right to secede "unless they wanted to," as some one aptly expressed it; in other words, that he had no right under the Constitution to keep them forcibly in the Union, and thus the constitutional opinions of the President harmonized effectively with the purposes of the secessionists. Fortunate it was that Mr.
I am in favor of all men acting together who are opposed to this slavery agitation, and in favor of banishing it from Congress forever; but as Democrats we can never fuse, either with Northern abolitionists, or Southern bolters and secessionists." Douglas, Speech at Erie, Penn., New York "Tribune," October 3, 1860, p. 4. Disunion was not a fungus of recent growth in American politics.
It is impossible to explain in what way the renewed confidence of the Northern party showed itself, or how one learned that the hopes of the secessionists were waxing dim; but it was so; and even a stranger became aware of the general feeling as clearly as though it were a defined and established fact. In the early part of the winter, when I reached Washington, the feeling ran all the other way.
Repudiating the dangerous heresies of the Secessionists, we believed, with you, that the War on their part is aggressive and wicked, and the objects for which it was to be prosecuted on ours, defined by your Message at the opening of the present Congress, to be such as all good men should approve. "We have not hesitated to vote all supplies necessary to carry it on vigorously.
The two ideas had then gone together. But the mob of Baltimore had ceased to be secessionists within twelve months of their first exploit.
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