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"Those in the border Slave States who are willing to give up everything that freemen should hold dear, to maintain the existing Union, and, if that cannot be done, desire to fasten these States on as the tail of the Northern Confederacy, complain bitterly of what they call the precipitancy of the Cotton States [...] The Cotton States [...] owe it to their own citizens and the world to secure themselves now against a calamity which the continued possession of the Federal Government for a few years by the Black Republican, or anti-slavery, party will make more than possible."

A border-state (Kentucky) fire-eater defends South Carolina's "precipitancy" and scorns the conditional Unionists who would make the border South "the tail of the Northern Confederacy." Via the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter" reproduction of Dumond's Southern Editorials on Secession.

Read it in the original — Louisville Daily Courier, Dec 20, 1860 ↗

Next post: Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Dec 21, 1860 →

"The Revolution has begun—one of the "Original Thirteen" States, by a solemn ordinance, unanimously passed by a delegated Convention of her Sovereign people, is to-day out of the Union. A whole State has revolted! [...] It is startling because it inaugurates political revolution and precipitates civil war [...] All this talk about Compromise Lines, Committees and Compromises can only stay the dissolution, not prevent it. Mark what we say."

A Northern Democratic paper the morning after — no celebration, only dread: South Carolina's exit is real revolution and coming civil war, and no compromise scheme can now prevent dissolution. Via the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter."

Read it in the original — Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Dec 21, 1860 ↗