2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, “J.E. Wilson” 5p. octavo, December 12, 1860, Wakefiled, Mississippi, and reads in part: “...I still believe there will be not serious conflict nor eventual dissolution of the Union; though my neighbors one and all think differently. I think it likely that the storm will rage more loudly and the excitement be still greater than it is now for several months to come. And I am glad now to believe, what I did not six weeks ago, that the South will be unanimous in demanding some just concessions from the North which I believe the North will make after a while - that is a repeal of the ‘person-liberty laws’ by the eight states that have enacted them and some change in the constitution that will satisfy conservative men in the South on the subject of slavery in the territories. If these concessions are not made there will be I think certainly a Southern Confederacy within the next 18 months. At present the South is more in want of friends among the voters of the North than of soldiers at home. The S. Carolina politicians are weakening the cause of the South by their violence. They will, I suppose declare themselves out of the Union next week, but they have a chance of coming back some time next summer or fall...” Fine.
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