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- Tags: prewar
“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…
Address of Thomas Ruffin: Delivered Before the State Agricultural Society of North Carolina, October 18, 1855
... My purpose now, however, is merely to maintain that slavery here is favorable to the interests of agriculture in point of economy and profit, and not unwholesome to the moral and social condition of each race. In support of the first part of the…
Tags: prewar
An Ordinance to dissolve the Union Between The State of North Carolina and The United States, May 20, 1861.
ODRINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE
STATE CONVENTION.
[No. 1.]
AN ORDINANCE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BETWEEN
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND
THE OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER
THE COMPACT OF GOVERNMENT ENTITLED THE
CONSTITUTION…
George C. Rable, Confederate Republic (1994)
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
        I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be…
Tags: prewar, Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
Image of John Brown
Enclosed is a portrait of John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry raid.
Tags: prewar
Jospeh C. Sitterson, The Secession Movement in N.C. (1939)
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…
Kent Blaser, "North Carolina and John Brown's Raid" (1978)
Tags: prewar
Letter from Daniel Wilson to S S Jocelyn, November 26, 1858
Sawyersville Nov the 26th 1858
To Revrnd. S S Jocelyn Sec of the AMA
Dear Brother
After a long delay I again address you to Inform you that whatever may have been the Impressions made on your mind by others; as to the Writer that I still feel…
Letter from John W. Halliburton to Juliet Halliburton, March 6, [1861]
Chapel Hill
March the 6th
My Darling.
You have consented to let one sunday pass without giving to me the accustomed salute. I have not been well at ease since Ed's letter was recieved. He said that you were very sorry. My Darling is it always…
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948

Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…