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Southern Confederacy plan exposed and denounced in Alabama prose
A scathing defense of the Union attacks the Rhett Yancey Memminger faction, accusing them of plotting a six-state Southern Confederacy to secede and wage revolution after Lincoln’s election. It traces Yancey’s career from 1848 to 1858, denounces his League of the South, and urges Alabama Democrats to reject treasonous plots while praising Jacksonian unity and federalism. The piece also notes camel utility for the army and a two sunset balloon observation.
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R. B. Rhett
South Carolina
Wm. L. Yancey
Alabama
Breckinridge
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Democracy
Lincoln
Charleston Mercury
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Provisional General Government
Mercury
Atlanta
Georgia
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Fort Moultrie
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Florrida
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United States
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Ruffin
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Montgomery
Ala
League of the United Southerners
W. L. Yascer
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John Bell
John Wesly
Kentucky
Henry Clay
John J. Crittenden
Virginia
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