A history of the United States . side the harbor since the 12th, but owing to the absence ofone of the ships which had been detained by the unwar-ranted interference of Seward, no assistance was firing on Sumter proved a serious mistake, as it enabledPresident Lincoln to charge the South with having begunthe war. On April 15 Lincoln called upon the States for 75,000militia to assist in putting down the secession demand was indignantly refused by theVirginia, governors of the eight remaining slave States,North with the exception of Maryland and Delaware. Tennessee, A
A history of the United States . side the harbor since the 12th, but owing to the absence ofone of the ships which had been detained by the unwar-ranted interference of Seward, no assistance was firing on Sumter proved a serious mistake, as it enabledPresident Lincoln to charge the South with having begunthe war. On April 15 Lincoln called upon the States for 75,000militia to assist in putting down the secession demand was indignantly refused by theVirginia, governors of the eight remaining slave States,North with the exception of Maryland and Delaware. Tennessee, A convention had been summoned in Virginia to^^^ consider the question of secession, and when it met early in February it was found that a large major-ity of the delegates were Union men. The convention con-tinued in session, however, and watched the course of events. The northern tier of Southern States had been opposedto secession and had regarded the action of the Gulf Statesas precipitate, but now they had thrust upon them the. o S E MINmESpTAV \t
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