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Letter from William Rufus King to William T. King.

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In the letter King sends news of family and friends, and he discusses the unsuccessful attempts of the "fire eaters," who encouraged the secession of the Southern states: "I have as yet been no where & consequently know nothing of the movements of the fire eaters except what I saw of the proceedings at Montgomery. When their open avowal of a determination to dissolve the Union subjected them to ridicule, and shocked many who not understanding the object they had in view had been acting with them; so that Yancey, George Gayle and Co. will be reduced to the necessity of seceding alone: for even So. Carolina is coming to its senses, and will, I have no doubt, wait for the action of Virginia, and Virginia has already decided on occupying the ground which I took last autumn (viz) if no further aggression is committed by the North to acquiesce in what has been done, and such will be the course of every slave holding state, the insane efforts of broken down politicians and unprincipled political aspirants to the contrary not withstanding."
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1851 March 27 1851 03 27
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Keywords

  1. Alabama
  2. Government
  3. King, William R. (William Rufus), 1786 1853
  4. King, William T. (William Thomas), 1829 1862
  5. Politics And Government
  6. Secession
  7. Slaver
  8. Slavery
  9. Social Life And Customs
  10. Southern States
  11. States' Rights (American Politics)
  12. To 1865
  13. United States
  14. Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814 1863

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