{"id":1143,"date":"2010-03-05T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:12:22","slug":"upper-south-and-the-secession-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/03\/05\/upper-south-and-the-secession-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper South and the Secession Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/true\/mss06-06\/mss06-06.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1145\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"letter\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I already <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=445\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> DocSouth\u2019s online exhibit on antebellum students at UNC-Chapel Hill, but <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/true\/mss06-06\/mss06-06.html\" target=\"_blank\">this letter<\/a> from March 1861 provides an interesting example of the Upper South\u2019s role in the secession crisis. Even though \u201cLincoln\u2019s inaugural\u2026amounts to coersion [sic],\u201d John Halliburton believed that \u201c[he could] hate him and still love the Union.\u201d Pro-secession editorials were \u201cabsurdities,\u201d as Halliburton noted. Of course many southerners reached similar conclusions. The Fayetteville <em>Observer <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/20318\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in February 1861 that Tennessee voters \u201cnot only [gave] an overwhelming majority for the Union candidates, but voted down the [Secession] Convention itself.\u201d Yet their support for the Union was not unconditional. Disunion remained an option under the right conditions. While the <em>Observer <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/22904\" target=\"_blank\">never expected<\/a> any \u201cviolation of [the South\u2019s] rights from [Lincoln\u2019s] administration,\u201d this conditional unionist newspaper considered secession a legitimate response. After Confederates attacked Fort Sumter and President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers in April 1861, North Carolina left the Union and Halliburton presumably changed his mind as he enlisted in the Confederate army later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already described DocSouth\u2019s online exhibit on antebellum students at UNC-Chapel Hill, but this letter from March 1861 provides an interesting example of the Upper South\u2019s role in the secession crisis. Even though \u201cLincoln\u2019s inaugural\u2026amounts to coersion [sic],\u201d John Halliburton believed that \u201c[he could] hate him and still love the Union.\u201d Pro-secession editorials were \u201cabsurdities,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,172],"tags":[167,157],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-letters-diaries","tag-education-culture","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}