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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05127.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | Robert C. Campbell to James Beale declaring the Union dead and transmitting ordinances regarding Texas' secession |
| Date | 1 February 1861 |
| Author | Campbell, Robert C. (fl. 1861) |
| Recipient | Beale, James |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Campbell, representing Galveston, Texas at the state Secession Convention, transmits several ordinances (not included) regarding Texas' secession to Beale (possibly Campbell's cousin). Declares "The Union is defunct -- dead, never to be revived. No concessions now would occasion its reconstruction. The South can not be conquered ... The cost has been counted and we are ready to pay it ... Had simple equality been conceded, the South would have submitted to every other wrong." |
| Subjects | Civil War Texas American West Secession Confederate States of America African American History Slavery |
| People | Beale, James (fl. 1861) Campbell, Robert C. (fl. 1861) |
| Place written | Austin, Texas |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics |
| 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 |
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