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To: Zuben Elgenubi
There were other great proponents of sovereignty besides Mr. Davis.

On December 18, 1860, Francis Wilkinson Pickens was inaugurated Governor of South Carolina.

Governor Pickens addressed the House as follows:

For...years this State has been connected by a Federal compact with co-states under a bond of Union, for great national objects common to all. In recent years there has been a powerful party organized upon principles of ambition and fanaticism, whose undisguised purpose is to divest the Federal Government from external, and turn its power upon the internal interests and domestic institutions of these States.

They have thus combined a party exclusively in the Northern States, whose avowed objects, not only endanger the peace, but the very existence of near one-half the States of this Confederacy. And in the recent election for President and Vice-President of these States, they have carried the election upon principles that make it no longer safe for us to rely upon the powers of the Federal Government or the guarantees of the Federal compact.

This is the great overt act of the people of in the Northern States at the ballot box, in the exercise of their sovereign power at the polls, from which there is no higher appeal recognized under our system of government in its ordinary and habitual operations. They thus propose to inaugurate a Chief Magistrate at the head of the Army and Navy with vast powers, not to preside over the common interests and destinies of all the States alike, but upon issues of malignant hostility and uncompromising war to be urged upon the rights, the interests and the peace of half the States of this Union.

12 posted on 02/17/2009 7:19:52 AM PST by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

1860 or 2009?

“...whose undisguised purpose is to divest the Federal Government from external, and turn its power upon the internal interests and domestic institutions of these States.”


14 posted on 02/17/2009 7:24:24 AM PST by villagerjoel ("Gun control is a prerequisite for genocide." - Unknown)
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