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- Tags: Secession
Shearer Davis Bowman, At The Precipice (2010)
Tags: Secession
David Brown, "Attacking Slavery from Within" (2004)
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…
George C. Rable, Confederate Republic (1994)
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession
"Disunion for Existing Causes," North Carolina Standard, December 1, 1860
A Confederacy or Union composed of the fifteen slaveholding States would, after a while, encounter some of the same difficulties which now beset the existing Union. The States south of us would produce and export cotton, while the middle or…
Tags: Confederacy, Constitution, Secession, union
“North Carolina and Secession,†April 4, 1861
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…
"A Few Reflections on Secession," The Daily Herald, November 9, 1860
It is thought by some persons that a dismemberment of our government is imminent, and almost inevitable; others are more sanguine as to the result of our present difficulties, but all agree that there is some cause for apprehension. The prevailing…
Tags: Confederacy, Government, Secession, union
"Governor's Correspondence: Arkansas Resolutions", March 28, 1861
Little Rock, March 29, 1861 To His Excellency, J.W. Ellis Governor of the State of North Carolina Sir:- By the fifth of the Series of Resolutions which I have the honor herewith to transmit to you, and which were adopted by the State Convention of…
"Craven County December 1860 resolutions" December 12, 1860
Craven County Meeting On yesterday the 12th December a large portion of the citizens of Craven met in the Theatre to give expression to their sentiments relative to the present alarming state of National affairs. On motion W.B. Wadsworth was called…
Tags: pre-war, Secession, sectionalism
William Woods Holden, 1818 -1892
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession, W.W. Holden
The Confederate Republic, George C. Rable
Tags: North Carolina, pre-war, Secession
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908
Daniel Russell, a former Confederate soldier, became disillusioned by Southern leadership during the Civil War and joined the Republican Party in…