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Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ia favored the immediate abolition of the slave-trade, and the time for its abolition was extended twenty years on the demand of Massachusetts and other New England States, and when the slave-trade was abolished Virginia voted for its abolition, while Massachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory. And there can be but little doubt that the sentiments of her leading statesmen would have prevailed, and Virginia would have adopted emancipation measures, but for the fact that, after finding that slavery would not pay with them, the Northern States (after selling their own slaves and pocketing the money) began a system of warfare upon slavery which tended to consolidate and perpetuate the
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ment of the State to the Confederate authorities—and that a vote against secession was impossible, because, at the time of the popular vote, the soil of Virginia was overrun by soldiers from the cotton States. The Convention, and not the Governor, formed the alliance with the Confederate States—the election was one of the fairest ever held in America—and while the vote stood 125,950 in favor of ratifying the ordinance of secession to 20,373 against it (most of these last being cast in Northwest Virginia, where Federal bayonets did influence the vote)—yet there were no soldiers at the polls, no sort of intimidation was used, and men voted freely their honest convictions. The simple truth is, that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation caused the immediate secession of Virginia, and so dissipated the Union sentiment of the people, that Hon. John B. Baldwin (the Union leader of the Convention, and one of the ablest, purest men the State ever produced) but voiced the general sentiment when he wrote
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
eral Constitution was adopted Virginia favored the immediate abolition of the slave-trade, and the time for its abolition was extended twenty years on the demand of Massachusetts and other New England States, and when the slave-trade was abolished Virginia voted for its abolition, while Massachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory. And there can be but little doubt that the sentiments of her leading statesmen would have prevailed, and Virginia would have adopted emancipation measures, but for the fact that, after finding that slavery would not pay with them, the Northern States (after selling their own slaves and pocketing the money) began a system of warfare upon slavery which tende
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
knew not Joseph—the very fundamental principles of the Constitution were, in her judgment, subverted—civil war, with all of its horrors, had been inaugurated, and she must choose on which side she would fight. She did not hesitate; but knowing full well that her soil would be the great battlefield, she took up the gage of battle and called on her sons to rally to her defence. From mountain-valley to the shores of her resounding seas—from Alleghany to Chesapeake—from the Potomac to the North Carolina line—the call is heard and there rush to arms at the first tap of the drum—not Hessian or Milesian mercenaries, not a band of negro-traders coolly calculating how much they could make out of a Southern Confederacy—but the very flower of our Virginia manhood, as true patriots as the world ever saw, worthy sons of sires of ‘76. And they did make a fight which illustrates some of the brightest pages of American history, and of which men at the North as well as men at the South a
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
augurate civil war. But the most remarkable statement in Mr. Johnson's article is as follows: Virginia's fate appears to have been determined by a measure that was less spectacular and more coldly significant. The Confederate Congress at Montgomery passed an act forbidding the importation of slaves from States outside of the Confederacy. When Virginia heard that, like the young man in Scripture, she went away sorrowful; for in that line of trade she had great possessions. The cultivatio forbidden this traffic to outsiders, the Virginia Convention again took up the ordinance of secession (April 17th) and passed it in secret session by a vote of 88 to 65. Now, I have to say in reply to this: 1. The Confederate Congress at Montgomery passed no such act forbidding the importation of slaves from States outside of the Confederacy, and absolutely nothing of this character whatever. I have before me an official copy of The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America—
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
land. When the Federal Constitution was adopted Virginia favored the immediate abolition of the slave-trade, and the time for its abolition was extended twenty years on the demand of Massachusetts and other New England States, and when the slave-trade was abolished Virginia voted for its abolition, while Massachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory. And there can be but little doubt that the sentiments of her leading statesmen would have prevailed, and Virginia would have adopted emancipation measures, but for the fact that, after finding that slavery would not pay with them, the Northern States (after selling their own slaves and pocketing the money) began a system of warfare upon
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
t were brought to her soil came in ships of Old or New England. When the Federal Constitution was adopted Virginia favored the immediate abolition of the slave-trade, and the time for its abolition was extended twenty years on the demand of Massachusetts and other New England States, and when the slave-trade was abolished Virginia voted for its abolition, while Massachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, theMassachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory. And there can be but little doubt that the sentiments of her leading statesmen would have prevailed, and Virginia would have adopted emancipation measures, but for the fact that, after finding that slavery would not pay with them, the Northern States (after selling their own sl
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
Confederate Congress at Montgomery passed an act forbidding the importation of slaves from States outside of the Confederacy. When Virginia heard that, like the young man in Scripture, she went away sorrowful; for in that line of trade she had great possessions. The cultivation of land by slave-labor had long since ceased to be profitable in the border States—or at least it was far less profitable than raising slaves for the cotton States, and the acquisition of new territory in Texas and Missouri had enormously increased the demand. The greatest part of this business (sometimes estimated as high as one half) was Virginia's. It was called the vigintal crop, as the blacks were ready for market and at their highest value about the age of twenty. As it was an ordinary business of bargain and sale, no statistics were kept; but the lowest estimate of the annual value of the trade in the Old Dominion placed it in the tens of millions of dollars. After Sumter had been fired on and the C
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
e Union was so strong—and his opposition to secession so emphatic and outspoken—that the secessionists distrusted him, and their chief organ, the Richmond Examiner, was filled with abuse and denunciation of our tortoise Governor, the submissionist, the betrayer of the liberties of the people, etc. Governor Letcher was in fullest accord with the Union leaders of the Virginia Convention, and refused every suggestion to call out troops to capture the navy-yard at Portsmouth, Fort Monroe, or Harper's Ferry until after the Convention had passed the ordinance of secession. But he was, in all of his sympathies and feelings, a Virginian, did not believe in the right of the General Government to coerce a Sovereign State, and promptly responded to Mr. Lincoln's call for Virginia's quota of the seventy-five thousand troops that no troops would be furnished for any such purpose—an object which, in his judgment, was not within the purview of the Constitution or the laws. You have, said he to Mr. <
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
tution was adopted Virginia favored the immediate abolition of the slave-trade, and the time for its abolition was extended twenty years on the demand of Massachusetts and other New England States, and when the slave-trade was abolished Virginia voted for its abolition, while Massachusetts voted for its continuance. After giving with princely liberality, to the General Government for the common ___domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory. And there can be but little doubt that the sentiments of her leading statesmen would have prevailed, and Virginia would have adopted emancipation measures, but for the fact that, after finding that slavery would not pay with them, the Northern States (after selling their own slaves and pocketing the money) began a system of warfare upon slavery which tended to conso
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