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The proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, which we publish to-day, has completed the sectionalization of the country. The two extremes are now arrayed against each other with warlike purposes, and the only hope for peace is in the border States. They may…

The Edenton Gazette states, upon information received from an undoubted source, that there have been killed in Southampton county upwards of one hundred negroes, consequent upon the late insurrection in that county. Fourteen of the thoughtless,…

- Bress my heart how am you Jim?
- Dat you Jumbo? yeah, yeah!

- THE BLACK CONSCRIPTION.
- "When black meets black then comes the end(?) of War."

New perspectives mark Civil War anniversary BY JAY PRICE RALEIGH -- North Carolina has begun the sesquicentennial of perhaps its most important year in the Civil War, when Union troops staged amphibious attacks and seized crucial swaths of coastal…

The political cartoon depicts a black politician overseeing a group of blind white women. The cartoon was intended to encouraging white supremacy by showing the dangers of black politicians. The cartoon highlights the use of white female protection…

North Carolina and Secession—North Carolina will not secede from the Union for existing causes. Nearly all the Union candidates in this State advocated a Convention; if they had opposed it, it would have been voted down by 30,000 majority. We…

This article describes the execution of two men found guilty of deserting the Confederate Army, and ends by stating that it is hoped their fate will serve the greater good of the Army in the end.

This article focuses on how public sentiment in the North was not entirely with Lincoln, and that as the "unconstitutional" war dragged on, they would northerners would become less supportive of fighting the South.

This article offered news on a new regiment of volunteers. The reader was assured that this particular regiment would serve the Confederacy honorably.

This article highlighted the fact that the burden of conscription laws fell most heavily on the poor, who were also the ones that needed to stay home to work the most. It ends by calling on the wealthy to help provide for the families left behind by…