Disunion Feed

"The North has rolled up a decisive majority for ABRAHAM LINCOLN as President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN as Vice President of the Nation. It is the first time in the history of the country that its national head has been elected by a purely sectional vote. [...] Fifteen States are without a President — they took no part in his election, and refuse their consent to come under an administration founded upon a sentiment hostile to their social system. [...] While we fear the worst results to the nation from the election of LINCOLN, we still trust that the threatened calamity may be averted, and our glorious Union still remain."

The Democratic paper in the same town as the Franklin Repository (se-002), same week — the morning-after dread: Lincoln as the first President chosen by 'a purely sectional vote,' fifteen states withholding consent. The Vice-President's name is normalized from the paper's 'HANIBAL.' Verified at Valley of the Shadow. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Valley Spirit, Nov 14, 1860 ↗

"The most inveterate and sanguine Unionist in Georgia, if he is an observant man, must read, in the signs of the times, the hopelessness of the Union cause, and the feebleness of the Union sentiment in this State. [...] With them the question is, secession from the Union, and a self-defending, homogeneous southern Republic, or submission to the Union, and the fate of Jamaica and St. Domingo."

A Georgia secessionist paper answering Gov. Joseph E. Brown's message; 'the fate of Jamaica and St. Domingo' invokes emancipation and slave revolt (Haiti 1791–1804; Jamaican emancipation 1834) — the core fear that remaining in the Union means the end of slavery. Text from the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter" reproduction of Dumond's Southern Editorials on Secession (transcription; original newspaper scan not cross-checked). Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), Nov 16, 1860 ↗