Seven Score and Ten and Civil War Daily Gazette have been doing a great job keeping us up-to-date on the rabid secession fever in South Carolina since Lincoln’s election on November 6th (1860, of course).
Here are three paragraphs from The New York Times November 15, 1860:
1) The [Charleston] Mercury also has this paragraph:
“We learn from a gentleman, who arrived last evening from Mississippi, that the opponents of BRECKINRIDGE at Okolona, hung Mr. YANCEY in effigy on the morning of the 6th. The figure to represent him carried a Mobile Mercury under one arm and a Prairie News under the other. We are obliged to them for our part of the compliment.”
2) THE HARPERS’ PERIODICALS PROSCRIBED
The Mercury makes the following announcement:
We learn that on Friday all the book-houses in this city, who have heretofore sold Harpers’ Weekly and Monthly publications, closed their accounts with the publishers, and returned the copies on hand. The last number of the Weekly opened with a biographical sketch and full length portrait of ABE LINCOLN, the illustrious rail-splitter.
3) A Massachusetts Schoolmaster Sent Home.
BOSTON, Wednesday, Nov. 14.
WM.C. WOOD, a graduate of Harvard College, has arrived here in the steamer South Carolina, from Charleston. He was civilly requested to leave the State and his passage to this port paid. Mr. WOOD was in South Carolina to fulfill an engagement as a school teacher in the Barnwell District.
