. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . r end,Black Republican rule. ... As long asI am here, I shall shield and protectthe South. Whenever it shall come topass that I think I can do no further goodhere, I shall return to my home. Buchananis the truest friend to the South I haveever known in the North. He is a jewelof a man. After speaking of the in-tended secession of Mississippi, he said :— I want the co-operation of the SouthernStates. I wish to do all I can to securetheir sympathy and co-operation. A con-federacy of the Southern States will be strong enough t
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . r end,Black Republican rule. ... As long asI am here, I shall shield and protectthe South. Whenever it shall come topass that I think I can do no further goodhere, I shall return to my home. Buchananis the truest friend to the South I haveever known in the North. He is a jewelof a man. After speaking of the in-tended secession of Mississippi, he said :— I want the co-operation of the SouthernStates. I wish to do all I can to securetheir sympathy and co-operation. A con-federacy of the Southern States will be strong enough to command the respect of the world, and the love and con-fidence of our people at home. South Carolina will go. I consider Georgiaand Florida as certain. Alabama probable. Then Mississippi must I want Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina,Virginia; and Maryland will not stay behind long. ... As soon asour mechanics, our merchants, our lawyers, our editors, look this mat-ter in the face, and calculate the consequences, they will see their in-. JACOB THOMPSON. unanimity. lie think* it of great importance that the cotton crop should go forward at once, and that themoney should he in the hands of the people, that the cry of popular distress shall not be heard at the out-let of this move.* My own opinion is, that it would be well to have a discreet man, one who knows the value of silence, who■can listen wisely, present in Milledgeville, at the meeting of the State Legislature, as there will be there an out-side gathering of the very ablest men of that State. And the next point, that you should, at the earliest possible day of the session of our own legislature,elect a man as governor, whose name and character will conciliate as well as give confidence to all the men ofithe State. If we do act, I really think this half the battle; a man upon whose temper the State can rely. I say nothing about a convention, as I understand, on all hands, that that is a fixe
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