. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . there the plan for the overt actof rebellion, performed by South Caro-linians in Convention at Charleston, sixtydays later, seems to have been arranged. They were assured that theirwell-managed sundering of the Democratic party at Charleston, in April,2would result in the election of Mr. Lincoln, and that the pretext for rebel-lion, so long and anxiously waited for, would be presented within a fort-night from that time. This meeting was followed by similar cabals in the other cotton-growingStates; and, in Virginia, that eve
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . there the plan for the overt actof rebellion, performed by South Caro-linians in Convention at Charleston, sixtydays later, seems to have been arranged. They were assured that theirwell-managed sundering of the Democratic party at Charleston, in April,2would result in the election of Mr. Lincoln, and that the pretext for rebel-lion, so long and anxiously waited for, would be presented within a fort-night from that time. This meeting was followed by similar cabals in the other cotton-growingStates; and, in Virginia, that ever-restless mischief-maker, ex-governorHenry A. Wise, with R. M. T. Hunter, John Tyler, James M. Mason, theauthor of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, who had been his co-plotteragainst the life of the Republic four years before,3 and other leading poli-ticians in that State, were exceedingly active in arranging plans for thatCommonwealth to join her Southern sisters in the work of treason. Wise,who assumed to be their orator on all occasions, had openly declared, that. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN. 1 These were John McQueen, Lawrence M. Keitt, Milledge L. Bonham, John D. Ashmore, and William , of the House of Representatives, and Senators James II. Hammond and James Chesnut, Jr. 2 See page 23. 3 In response to an invitation from Wise, a convention of Governors of Slave-labor States was secretly heldtit Raleigh, North Carolina, of which Jefferson Davis, then the Secretary of War, was fully cognizant. Theobject was to devise a scheme of rebellion at that time, in the event of the election of Colonel John C. Fremont,the Republican candidate for the Presidency. Wise afterward boasted that, had Fremont been elected, he shouldhave marched, at the head of twenty thousand men, to Washington, taken possession of the Capitol, and pre-vented the inauguration of the President elect. Fremonts defeat postponed overt acts of treason by the con-spirators.— The American Conflict: by Horace Gree
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