. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . THE SOUTH INSTITUTE. 1 This building, in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signed (it was adoptedin St. Andrews Hall), late in December, 1860, was destroyed by fire in December, 1861. St. Andrews Hall, inwhich the conspirators against the Eepublic who seceded from the Democratic Convention now under con-sideration assembled, and in which the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was adopted by the unanimousvoice of a Convention, was destroyed at the same time. Everything about the site o
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . THE SOUTH INSTITUTE. 1 This building, in which the famous South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was signed (it was adoptedin St. Andrews Hall), late in December, 1860, was destroyed by fire in December, 1861. St. Andrews Hall, inwhich the conspirators against the Eepublic who seceded from the Democratic Convention now under con-sideration assembled, and in which the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession was adopted by the unanimousvoice of a Convention, was destroyed at the same time. Everything about the site of these buildings, made infa-mous in history because of the wicked acts performed in them, yet C\ 865) exhibits a ghastly picture of desolation. 20 THE SPIRIT OF THE SLAVE CALEB CUSHING. age; his features expressed great mental and moral energy, and his voicewas clear and musical. On taking the chair, Mr. Gushing addressed the Convention with greatvigor. He declared it to be the mission of the Democratic party to recon-cile popular freedom with constituted order, and to maintain the sacred reserved rights of the Sovereign declared the Republicans to be thosewho Avere laboring to overthrow the Con-stitution, and aiming to produce in thiscountry a permanent sectional conspiracy—■a traitorous sectional conspiracy of onehalf of the States of the Union against theother half ; those who, impelled by the stu-pid and half insane sjairit of faction andfanaticism, would hurry our land on to rev-olution and to civil war. He declared itto be the high and noble part of the Dem-ocratic party of the Union to withstand—tostrike down and conquer these bandedenemies of the These utter-ances formed a key-note that harmonizedwith the feelings
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