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March 23, 1863 – A Voice from the South

We are kindly permitted to make an extract from a private letter, from a gentleman in the South to his near relative in this State, the lesson of which we commend to that class of our fellow-citizens who feel a deep concern lest the action of the government, in vigorously prosecuting the war, should prejudice the Union men of the South, and lead them to make common cause with the rebels. Though we do not choose to give the name or exact locality of the writer, or to give any due to his present whereabouts, we will state that he is a native of Maine, of Democratic antecedents, a graduate of one of our New England colleges, that be studied a profession, went South where he engaged in teaching, finally married into the family of a wealthy cotton planter, and at the time the rebellion broke out, he was engaged in a lucrative legal practice.

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Our Warning

We have constantly warned our secession friends, that if they arrayed Maryland against the General Government, the war with all its fearful consequences would be transferred from the South to…
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March 9, 1861 – Gov. Ellis in Wilmington

We learn from the Journal that Gov. Ellis was in Wilmington on the 5th, had a reception at the hands of his brother disunionists, and made a speech—The Journal says:

“The Governor referred to the position of public affairs in Congress and throughout the country to Mr. Lincoln’s declarations to his sneaking into Washington to the total failure of all plans of adjustment to the coercion policy of Lincoln’s message to the necessity of resistance, and to the inevitable course of things leading North-Carolina to join her fate with her sisters of the South, and that at no distant day. He did not know how the election in this State had resulted, but however it had resulted the march of events was still onwards. If we had not a convention now, we would have one very soon. When he looked around and saw the spirit manifested here he felt that the spirit of resistance to oppression which animated the men of ’76 was still alive, and its fires still burning.

Neither the law nor the constitution gave the President power to coerce any State, and the attempt to do so would be an act of usurpation that the people themselves had the natural and indefeasible right to resist, even should it be necessary to do so without waiting for the forms of authority.

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March 3, 1861 – The Border Slave States

In the following article the Baltimore Clipper tells some truths which should be seriously considered :

In the Presidential canvass all parties in the Southern border States proclaimed themselves for the Union without qualification. The Union party men stood upon their platform of the Union, the Constitution and the laws; the democrats ridiculed this platform, and asserted that they too were in favor of the Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws, and declared themselves as good Union men as any others. By a solemn vote in the United States Senate the Southern men almost without exception had declared that protection to slavery in the territories was not needed, and the whole population, at least of the border States of the South, went into the canvass and through it upon this hypothesis and with this declaration.