CHAPTER I.

SECESSION.

Speech of Colonel Drane--Submission Denounced--Northern Aggression--No more Slave States--Northern _isms_--Yankees' Servants--Yankee inferiority--Breckinridge, or immediate, complete, and eternal Separation--A Day of Rejoicing--Abraham Lincoln, President elect--A Union Speech--A Southerner's Reasons for opposing Secession--Address by a Radical Secessionist--Cursing and Bitterness--A Prayer--Sermon against Secession--List of Grievances--Causes which led to Secession 13--49