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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00572.14 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Paul J. Semmes, 2nd Regiment, Georgia, infantry |
| Title | James N. Bethune to Paul Semmes discussing a meeting about secession in Milledgeville, Georgia |
| Date | 15 November 1860 |
| Author | Bethune, James N. (1803-1895) |
| Recipient | Semmes, Paul Jones |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Discusses the meeting of the legislature in Milledgeville, Georgia on the issue of secession. Writes that the general consensus in Milledgeville is one of resistance. States that Georgia Senator Benjamin Hill is demanding that Lincoln enforce the fugitive slave law. If the laws are not enforced, Hill will "help us dissolve the Union and we will all go together." Informs that "Many prominent men who have been heretoforce violent Union Men are now openly and strongly for immediate Secession." Written on blue paper. Georgia seceded from the Union on January 19, 1861. Bethune was a prominent Georgia newspaperman and an ardent secessionist. Hill, a moderate, initially opposed secession, but reconciled to the action when public opinion rendered it inevitable. |
| Subjects | African American History Government and Civics Civil War Military History Secession Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America President Fugitive Slave Act Law Slavery |
| People | Bethune, James N. (1803-1895) Semmes, Paul Jones (1815-1863) Hill, Benjamin Harvey (1823-1882) |
| Place written | Milledgeville, Georgia |
| Theme | Government & Politics; The American Civil War; Law; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |