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Excerpt from The Border States: Their Power and Duty in the Present Disordered Condition
The country is now, or, from all the tidings that reach us, must soon be compelled to accept the fact that South Carolina has seceded from the Union.
Whatever may be the right of secession, it is about to become a practical fact. South Carolina has announced her purpose, as far as it is in her power, to dissolve the Union. Other States belonging to that series which has lately assumed the designation of the Cotton States - as expres sive of a peculiar affinity in interest and policy - are likely to follow her example. Alabama, which is, in some sense, the offspring of Carolina, her pupil and admiring disciple, has shown herself already too eager to precipitate herself into revolution to leave us any hope that she will hesi tate to array herself on the side of her teacher. Perhaps we may still find some encouragement to a better augury, in the good sense and prudence of Georgia and the other States which have not been wholly possessed and fevered by that extraordinary contagion of frenzy which Carolina has spread through the lowlands of the South. But I con fess my fears. The signs are against it. The chances are for this event is not under the control of the sober judgment and wise estimate by which all matters of State should be directed - the chances are that passion will rule the hour, and that the revolution will move onward, swayed by the same rash impulses as those in which it originated.
We of the Border States, therefore, cannot too soon take counsel together, touching our own interest and duty in the new condition of affairs which is about to be forced upon us.
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