Disunion Feed

"Every day it becomes more and more manifest that the South will be forced to act as a unit when the issue shall be made up on her constitutional right to enter and enjoy the territories of this Union [...] Throughout the North, the Whigs and free-soil Democrats will coalesce."

A Georgia paper forecasting the realignment while the bill is still in the House: Whigs and free-soil Democrats fusing in the North, the South voting as a bloc. It expected a large share of Northern Democrats to hold with the South, which is the half of the prediction that did not hold.

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗

"At sunrise this morning, one hundred guns were fired from the Public Square, by order of the Democratic Town Committee, in honor of the passage of the bill giving Territorial Governments to the people of Nebraska and Kansas, and the triumph of the principle of Constitutional freedom involved therein. [...] We are not particularly partial to demonstrations of this noisy kind, on party triumphs"

The same paper that welcomed Douglas's report in January is here celebrating the bill's passage with artillery — and adding, in the next breath, that it does not care for this sort of thing. The gun count is itemized in the original: thirty-one for the States, one each for Kansas and Nebraska, thirteen for the original States.

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗