. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . re, a very moderate man, m a pubhc speech, said that nocourse was left but forthe state to secede, andwith the other southernstates form a confeder-acy. Pubhc meetingswere held in every townand village to declarethat Alabama would notsubmit to the rule of theBlack typical meeting heldin Mobile, November15, i860, arraigned theRepubhcan party be-cause: (i) it had de-clared for the abolitionof slavery in all terri-tories and Federal dis-tricts and for theabolition of the inter-state slave trade; (2) ithad denied the extra-dition of murderers
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . re, a very moderate man, m a pubhc speech, said that nocourse was left but forthe state to secede, andwith the other southernstates form a confeder-acy. Pubhc meetingswere held in every townand village to declarethat Alabama would notsubmit to the rule of theBlack typical meeting heldin Mobile, November15, i860, arraigned theRepubhcan party be-cause: (i) it had de-clared for the abolitionof slavery in all terri-tories and Federal dis-tricts and for theabolition of the inter-state slave trade; (2) ithad denied the extra-dition of murderers,marauders, and otherfelons; (3) it had con-cealed and shielded the murderers of masters who had sought torecover fugitive slaves; (4) it advocated negro equahty and made itthe basis of legislation hostile to the South; (5) it opposed protectionof slave property on the high seas and had justified piracy in thecase of the Creole; (6) it had invaded Virginia and shed the bloodof her citizens on her own soil; and (7) had announced a policy of. KLECTION FOE PKESIDENT, 1880. I Majority or plurality for Breckenridge.^g •■ Eell. I :,^| Douglas. For Breckenridge i8,831. Bell 27,876. Douglas 13,651. In Lawrence, Coosa, and Mobile Counties tlie vote was nearly evenlydivided. , ^^ SEPARATION OF THE CHURCHES 21 total abolition/ In December, i860, the Federal grand jury atMontgomery declared the Federal government worthless, impotent,and a nuisance, as it had failed to protect the interests of thepeople of Alabama. The presentment was signed by C. C. Gunter,foreman, and nineteen others.^ Had the governor been willing to call a convention at once, seces-sion would have been almost unanimous; but delay caused the morecautious and timid to reflect and gave the so-called cooperationiststime to put forth a platform. The leaders of the party of delayrepresenting north Alabama, the stronghold of radical democracy,were WilHam R. Smith, M. J. Bulger, Nicholas Davis, Jere Clemens,and Robert J. Je
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