The Civil War News & Views Open Discussion Forum

Re: Disunion reasons shift...
In Response To: Re: Disunion reasons shift... ()

"This was an extremely small but vocal group that had money to push their aggenda. They were not popular in the South for many years, but their ideas affected the sensibilities of a great majority of Southerners and affected the thinking of new generations. Whereas in 1850 the ideas of disunion to a great many Southerners was repulsive, by 1861, it was the natural course to follow."

This is a reasonable description of the group of Southen political leaders popularly known as the fire-eaters.

"Politically abolitionist were these mens best friend's."

In 1860 a Unionist newspaper in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa Monitor, published an editorial along these lines. He wrote that abolitionists and secessionists were opposite sides of the same coin. The editor and writer, William C. Fowler, organized the first company in Confederate service from Tuscaloosa.

Messages In This Thread

Southern Secession Movements
More Southern Disunion...
Correction
Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...
Re: Disunion reasons shift...