. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . f treasonable speech, ledby the dozen—they were but a little more in number—of the chief Three, if not four, of these chief conspirators were President Buchananscabinet ministers and constitutional advisers. The three were HowellCobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury; John B. Floyd, of Virginia,Secretary of War; and Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary of theInterior. William H. Trescot, of South Carolina, who for many years had 1 Autograph letter to Josiah Williams, of Poughkeepsie, N. V., dated R
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . f treasonable speech, ledby the dozen—they were but a little more in number—of the chief Three, if not four, of these chief conspirators were President Buchananscabinet ministers and constitutional advisers. The three were HowellCobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury; John B. Floyd, of Virginia,Secretary of War; and Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary of theInterior. William H. Trescot, of South Carolina, who for many years had 1 Autograph letter to Josiah Williams, of Poughkeepsie, N. V., dated Rolleston, near Norfolk, Va., De-cember 24, 1860. Governor Wise, it will be remembered, was chiefly instrumental in procuring the executionof John Brown for treason, less than a year before. Four years later, his estate of Rolleston, »ev lj««*»H».was occupied as a camp for freed negroes; and, in hiamansion, a daughter of John Brown was taacht«a qclv*><children how to read and write the English language. 2 See the remarks of Horace Maynard, on page HOWELL OOBB. 44 COBBS PLAN OF REVOLUTION. been plotting against the life of the nation, was then Assistant Secretary ofState, and their confederate in crime. These men, while in office, and)pledged by solemn oaths to support the National Constitution and laws,were for months plotting schemes for the destruction of the former anddefiance of the latter. 4 From his official desk at Washington, Cobb wrote an inflam- December 6, 07 i860. matory address to the j>eople of Georgia, in which he said, in conclusion :— On the 4th of March, 1861,the Federal Government will pass intothe hands of the Abolitionists. It willthen cease to have the slightest claimeither upon your confidence or your loy-alty ; and, in my honest judgment, eachhour that Georgia remains thereafter amember of the Union will be an hourof degradation, to be followed by cer-tain and speedy ruin. I entertain nodoubt either of your right or duty to se-ce
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