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This being refused, they not only violently opposed the compromise measures, but organized a movement for resistance in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, demanding redress, and threatening secession if it were not accorded. A popular contest on this issue followed in 1851 in these States, in which the ultra-secession party was signally overthrown.
But to go to New Orleans; to cease singing "Dixie"; to be obliged to keep your sentiments to yourself for I would not wound Brother by any Ultra-Secession speech, and such could do me no good and only injure him if he is as friendly with the Federals as they say he is; to listen to the scurrilous abuse heaped on those fighting for our homes and liberties, among them my three brothers could I endure it?
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