The Revolution has begun — one of the "Original Thirteen" is to-day out of the Union. A whole State has revolted! It inaugurates political revolution and precipitates civil war. All this talk of Compromises can only stay the dissolution, not prevent it. Mark what we say.
Original passage & context
"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 ↗