. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . wed in them. People from the free States,they said, could convey their various kinds of property, to those new Ter-ritories, and could have their titles thereto protected; but emigrants fromSouthern States could not remove their slaves thither and retain posses-sion of them ; hence, it was high time to secede. The answer is: that theSouthern States themselves assisted in establishing those very laws bywhich a certain definite majority rules in the National Legislature. Theyapproved of those laws a
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . wed in them. People from the free States,they said, could convey their various kinds of property, to those new Ter-ritories, and could have their titles thereto protected; but emigrants fromSouthern States could not remove their slaves thither and retain posses-sion of them ; hence, it was high time to secede. The answer is: that theSouthern States themselves assisted in establishing those very laws bywhich a certain definite majority rules in the National Legislature. Theyapproved of those laws and obeyed them, as long as they operated to theirown benefit and promoted their own aggrandizement. But if, in thecourse of time the South lost the majority which the Constitution requiresand with that majority the controlling power, were they justified in re-pudiating the government which they had helped to construct, and hadsworn to support ? On the contrary they were obligated, as men ofhonor, honesty and veracity, to accept the legitimate consequences oftheir own free and deliberate §g •!^ POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH CAEOLINA, ETC. 57 CHAPTEE I. EFFECT OP MR LINCOLNS ELECTION IN THE SOUTH—POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHCAEOLINA AND GEORGIA—EXCITEMENT IN CHARLESTON—PRELIMINARY ACTS AND EVENTS—RESIGNATION OP FEDERAL OFFICERS—ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE STATE CONVENTION—OPPONENTS OP SECESSION—ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS—FEDERAL PROPERTY SEIZED INCHARLESTON—CONVENTIONS SUMMONED IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA—ASSEMBLING OF THECONVENTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA—THE FIRST ACT OF SECESSION FROM THE UNIONPASSED—APATHETIC STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCES—SECESSION LOGIC—REFLECTIONS ON THERESULT—POPULAR FEELINGS AT THIS TIME IN GEORGIA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPI AND FLORIDA•— AND RECKLESSNESS OF THE SECESSION LEADERS. On the 6tli of November, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was chosen Presidentof the United States, receiving the votes of seventeen States, or of onehundred and eight
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