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Just weeks after the incident in Baltimore, a fellow North Carolinian was also attacked for his abolitionist stance. Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, born and raised near Salisbury, was dismissed from his fac ulty post at the University of North Carolina…

On May 1, the legislature met ins special secession. Governor Eillis, in his message, Reviewed the theory on which the government of the United States was founded and discussed fully the Constitutional aspects of coercion. Assuming that the state…

George Rable's book, Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, takes the Confederate political culture and assesses it in its "own right" instead of a Southern problematic characteristic. Rable takes an in-depth look at the underlying…

SPEECH
OF
T. N. CRUMPLER,
OF ASHE,
ON FEDERAL RELATIONS,
DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JAN. 10, 1861.

RALEIGH:
PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE RALEIGH REGISTER.
1861.

Page 1
SPEECH.

THE House being in Committee of the…

RALEIGH, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 20.

The bill to arm the State passed its third reading in the House yesterday. An effort to take it up to-day failed.

The Assembly takes a recess till the 7th of January.

The Commissioners from Alabama and…