CHAPTER IV.

GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT.

Geographical Lines distinctly drawn 56

Behavior of the 36th Congress 57

Letter of Hon. Joseph Holt on the "Impending Tragedy" 58

South Carolina formally adopts the Ordinance of Secession 62

Southern Men's Opinion of Slavery 62

Mr. Lincoln imagines Himself in the Place of the Slave-Holder 65

Judge J. S. Black on Slavery as regarded by the Southern Man 66

Emancipation a Question of Figures as well as Feeling 66

Mission to Charleston 68

"Bring back a Palmetto, if you can't bring Good News" 70

Why General Stephen A. Hurlbut went to Charleston 70

Visit to Mr. James L. Pettigrew--Peaceable Secession or War Inevitable 71

"A great Goliath from the North"--"A Yankee Lincoln-Hireling" 72

Initiated into the great "Unpleasantness" 73

Interview with Governor Pickens--No Way out of Existing Difficulties but to fight out 74

Passes written by Governor Pickens 75, 78

Interview with Major Anderson 75

Rope strong enough to hang a Lincoln-Hireling 76

Timely Presence of Hon. Lawrence Keith 77

Extremes of Southern Character exemplified 77

Interview with the Postmaster of Charleston 78

Experience of General Hurlbut in Charleston 79