Timid vacillation was then succeeded by unscrupulous cunning; and, for
futile efforts, without hostile collision, to impose a claim of
authority upon people who repudiated it, were substituted measures which
could be sustained only by force.
[Footnote 111: "Revised Statutes of Massachusetts," 1836, p. 56.]
[Footnote 112: See "Revised Statutes of Virginia."]
[Footnote 113: "Buchanan's Administration," chap. ix, p. 165, and chap.
xi, pp. 212-214.]
[Footnote 114: "Buchanan's Administration," chap. ix, p. 166.]
[Footnote 115: Ibid.]
[Footnote 116: Ibid., chap. x, p. 180.]
[Footnote 117: See Appendix G.]
[Footnote 118: "Buchanan's Administration," chap. x, pp. 187, 188.]
[Footnote 119: "Buchanan's Administration," chap. x, p. 184.]
[Footnote 120: See "Congressional Globe," second session, Thirty-fifth
Congress, Part I, p. 284, _et seq._]
[Footnote 121: See Appendix I.]
[Footnote 122: Ibid.]
CHAPTER III.
Secession of Mississippi and Other States.--Withdrawal of
Senators.--Address of the Author on taking Leave of the
Senate.--Answer to Certain Objections.
Mississippi was the second State to withdraw from the Union, her
ordinance of secession being adopted on the 9th of January, 1861. She
was quickly followed by Florida on the 10th, Alabama on the 11th, and,
in the course of the same month, by Georgia on the 18th, and Louisiana
on the 26th.
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