Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Civilian letter regarding Secession, by A.P. Campbell to D.J. Hile, New Centre, S.C., January 4, 1861, 2pp., VG. In part, “I suppose the time has come that I ought to write to you again of our excitement ... You know we have seceded....perhaps you do not know that our militia are called out every week for drill & that every Battalion in the state is expected to furnish one company of volunteers....I hope you will know before this reaches you that Mississippi has also seceded. ... We expect here to have another time that will try men’s souls. ... We are making history every day. How the thing may terminate God alone knows. ...We think we are right. We think it would be wrong to submit to B. Republicans vile to submit to further aggressions... We do not blame ourselves, but those northern states how have by their own state laws have nullified the constitution of the U.S. & now elected a man who will carry out the laws of their states in opposition to the decisions of the Supreme Court & constitution. ... Our only hope is in the cooperation of other S. States, as the matter stands today. I believe we will get Florida, Ala., Miss. We may get Louisiana. Georgia, Ark., Tex., N.C., Tenn., are very doubtful. I am a Secessionist out & out, I would have preferred that S.C. had gone out nearer the time of the other S. States, but we have done the deed & if our rights are not recognized we will have to fight for them. ...
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