Prewar North Carolina
Description
Experience the events and controversies leading up to the Civil War from first-hand accounts. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to pre-Civil War North Carolina from controversies related to slavery in the territories to the secession crisis to the outbreak of war. Historical actors in prewar North Carolina authored these primary sources. Students in history classes at North Carolina State University and other contributors added the primary sources to this collection.
"The Nebraska Bill," February 22, 1854
When, on one or two former occasions, -- after advancing the suggestion that the introduction of the Nebraska bill was premature, and expressing our well-grounded opinion of the motives of Douglas, the demagogue, in bringing it forward, -- we…
"The Nebraska Question," February 1, 1854
In the Senate, on the 23d ult., Mr. DOUGLAS, from the Committee on Territories, reported a substitute for the bill which was brought forward by him a short time since for the organization of Nebraska territory. The leading features of the substitutes…
On the chastisement of Senator Sumner, May 26, 1856
The uppermost topic in the papers, North and South, now, is the recent chastisement of Senator Sumner, by Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina. -- As was expected, the affair has been a perfect Godsend to the Abolitionists, and they evidently intend to make…