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Eric | December 21, 2010
Friday, December 21, 1860 The news of secession reached across the eastern continent by morning. In Richmond, the Daily Dispatch reported that a Palmetto flag “of light ground, with a Palmetto tree in the centre of it, arched over by a galaxy of fifteen stars, indicating the Union of the Slave States, and a rattlesnake [...]
Eric | December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 20, 1860 Inside St. Andrew’s Hall in the heart of Charleston, at 1:07pm, the South Carolina Secession Convention voted by roll call upon the ordinance to leave the Union. One by one, the voices replied “yea” until all 169 delegates were unanimous. The expected word immediately hit the streets where the throngs were [...]
Eric | December 19, 2010
Wednesday, December 19, 1860 As the South Carolina Secession Convention rolled into its third day with committees, resolutions and the failed attempt to make it a private meeting, in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was surprisingly visited by a “regular genuine secessionist.” Springfield had never seen one of these before. But here he was, D.E. Ray [...]
Eric | December 18, 2010
Tuesday, December 18, 1860 In the wee morning hours, a steam train with a consist of eight coaches made its way from Columbia, the capitol of South Carolina, to Charleston, the heart of secession. The South’s first Secession Convention was forced to move due to an outbreak of smallpox. The train was filled with the [...]
Eric | December 17, 2010
Monday, December 17, 1860 South Carolina’s Secession Convention met in the Baptist Church in Columbia to open arguments for the state to leave the Union. It was a virtual who’s who of South Carolinian aristocracy. Ninety percent of the 159 delegates in attendance were slave owners (with the majority owning twenty or more).1 The day [...]
Eric | December 16, 2010
Sunday, December 16, 1860 On this snowy Sunday, President Buchanan appointed Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black to fill the seat of Secretary of State vacated by Lewis Cass after his resignation two days previous. Cass left the Cabinet because Buchanan refused to send reinforcements to Major Anderson at Forts Moultrie and Sumter. Black was of [...]
Eric | December 15, 2010
Saturday, December 15, 1860 “You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted,” wrote Lincoln to North Carolina Representative, John Adams Gilmer in response to his letter dated December 10th. Gilmer was a former member of the Whig Party (same as Lincoln) and was [...]
Eric | December 14, 2010
Friday, December 14, 1860 Rumors were bounding around Washington that Secretary of State Lewis Cass would be resigning. These rumors were confirmed when Cass officially handed his letter of resignation to President Buchanan (oddly, dated December 121). Though newspapers of the time speculated on the reasons, in his letter, Cass confirmed “that additional troops should [...]
Eric | December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 13, 1860 In response to the House Committee of Thirty-three, thirty Southern congressmen (23 representatives and seven senators) met to draw up their own plan. United States congressmen from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina met to talk of secession and to come up with a plan [...]
Eric | December 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 12, 1860 The House Committee of Thirty-Three proposed ideas, most involving slavery, in hopes of keeping the southern states from seceding. It was generally accepted that the states were threatening to leave in fear that Lincoln would limit or even end slavery altogether. Nearly two dozen propositions were put forward. Virginia proposed stricter [...]
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