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Excerpt from Alabama Secedes From the Union: An Address If you had been in Montgomery on the fateful night of Tuesday, November 6, 1860, you would have seen the streets of the little city, for then it had only 12,000 people, thronged with citizens and visitors. They were of all sexes, classes and colors; men, women and children, professional men, tradesmen, mechanics and planters; whites and blacks, all serious and anxious. They jostled and crowded each other on the sidewalks. Market Street (now Dexter Avenue) was filled with horsemen and the fine equipages of the wealthy. The lobby of the Exchange Hotel was packed, and the adjoining sidewalks jammed with humanity. Men and women stood anxiously around the telegraph office, and hundreds were about the newspaper offices eagerly scanning each bulletin. Large groups gathered about Estelle Hall. The people generally so happy and carefree, wore looks of disquietude that night, and there was an unwonted seriousness brooding over the city. What was the cause of all the anxiety? Why were the multitudes so grave that night of November 6, 1860? Do you ask me? A presidential election had been held that day, and the people were waiting to know who was to be the future head of the nation. It was a most momentous election, for that day's decision would shake the very foundations of the government. The early hours of the evening had passed. The election returns were coming in slowly. It was now near midnight. The result of the election depended upon the vote of one State. New York had 35 electoral votes. Without her votes Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, whose political teachings and principles were hostile to the people of Alabama and of the South, could not be elected. Election of Republican Candidates And so, as midnight came on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, the people of Montgomery awaited with deep concern the result of the balloting. No one could safely predict how New York would cast her votes. But now the time is at hand. The ballots have all been counted, and on every tongue is the question, How did New York vote? New York's votes went to Abraham Lincoln. The standard bearer of the Republican Party, elected on a political platform deadly inimical to the civilization of the South, would soon be president of the United States; the affairs of the national government would soon be in the hands of the political foes of the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The book tells about the vents and political attitudes during the reconstruction period in Alabama after the civil war. It provides a great background for understanding the current political and economic situation of the state from a historical perspective. The author of the book, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), a historian of the South and Reconstruction, prepared the Ph.D. thesis on the same topic, and some parts of the book are part of the materials he collected for the work.
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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama's secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
Based on a lifetime of researching and writing about their home county of Winston, the husband and wife team of Don and Amy Dodd have crafted a unique pictorial retrospective that conveys a serene sense of what it was like to grow up in the hills of Winston. Outlining the highlights of this Appalachian county's history, from its opposition to the Confederacy to its slow evolution from its rustic, rural roots of the mid-nineteenth century, two hundred photographs illustrate a century of hill country culture. A sparsely settled, isolated county of small farms with uncultivated, forested land, most of Winston County was out of the mainstream of Southern life for much of its history. The creation of the Bankhead National Forest preserved almost 200,000 acres of forested land, primarily in Winston, to perpetuate this "stranded frontier" into the post-World War II era. The story setting is scenic--fast-flowing creeks, waterfalls, bluffs, caves, natural bridges, and dense forests--and the characters match the stage--individualistic, rugged pioneers, more than a thousand mentioned by name within these pages. Winston has long resisted change, has held fast to traditional values, and, as seen in this treasured volume, is a place as unique as any other in America.
This study assesses the extent to which African decolonization resulted from deliberate imperial policy, from the pressures of African nationalism, or from an international situation transformed by superpower rivalries. It analyzes what powers were transferred and to whom they were given.Pan-Africanism is seen not only in its own right but as indicating the transformation of expectations when the new rulers, who had endorsed its geopolitical logic before taking power, settled into the routines of government.
