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See note 3 at the bottom on the Star. This is January, 1861.

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Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois.
Worthington G. Snethen to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, January 08, 1861 (Secession crisis)
From Worthington G. Snethen to Abraham Lincoln, January 8, 1861

Baltimore

Jany 8th 1861

Dear Sir

Mr [ Illegible] of the H. of Reps. yesterday, in refusing to suspend the rules for the introduction of Etheridge's1 Degradation Resolutions, and in passing Adrain's2 Major Anderson's Resolutions, have given the coup de grace to S. Carolina Fillebusters in in Baltimore. The reinforcements to Major Anderson, make us feel that we have a government once more, and so too the movements of Federal troops.3

I have it now in my power to assure you, that Maryland is all right, that the Union sentiment is overbearing all resistance, that Hicks in truth, is only following, not leading, that sentiment. That nothing but the timid counsels of Weed about compromise, and the idea that the Republicans will yield, ever drove the fillibusters in this State to even a hope of helping the rebels, that the movements in the House yesterday, have dissipated all hopes of getting the Republicans down, and, henceforward, you will see no more of trouble in our State, beyond, perhaps, the expiring convulsions of the revolutionists.

The impudent and traitorous message of Gov. Letcher4 is laughed at in this city. It is more worthy of a lunatic, than any thing else. Our friends at Washington are at last, I think, nerved up to the prospect of seeing all the slave states go out on paper. Mr Kilgore told the Com. on the District, yesterday, "Not another dollar for the District, until this rebellion is for ever put down." "Seize upon the Capitol," said he, "and in 10 days thereafter, we will retake it and hold it." "Col. Hughes, of this State, admitted the power of the South to do so, and was thoughtful. Preston King ridiculed the fright about S. Carolina, by saying, that his the Slavery was not protected in the Territories. A camp scene ensued, in which swearing bore a conspicuous part, for the old Hero knew how to swear. "I will go to Augusta alone, unfold one of my Buena Vista flags, and with a ragged negro boy to beat the drum, I will start to go thro' Georgia, and in 24 hours time, I shall have you both hanging higher than Haman!" They vamozed, as the Mexicans say.

Truly Yours

W. G. Snethen

[Note 1 Emerson Etheridge]

[Note 2 Garnett B. Adrain was a New Jersey Democrat in the U. S. House of Representatives.]

[Note 3 President Buchanan had authorized the Star of the West to carry provisions to Major Robert Anderson's garrison at Fort Sumter but the ship was forced to turn around because it received fire from South Carolina batteries in Charleston Harbor.]

[Note 4 ID: John Letcher, a Virginia politician, was a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851-59) and governor of his state during the secession crisis and much of the Civil War (1860-64).]

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