Governor (or President?) Pickens (from Harper's Weekly)
From The New-York Times December 22, 1860:
AFFAIRS IN CHARLESTON.; HOW SECESSION IS RECEIVED–GEN. CUSHING ON A SPECIAL MISSION.
CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 21.
There was a grand procession of Minute-men to-night, and several thousand citizens, strangers, firemen and military, were in line, with music, banners and transparencies, and reflectors. The procession formed in front of Secession Hall, and proceeded to the Mills House to serenade Gov. PICKENS, and subsequently to Wm.D. PORCHER’s, President of the Senate; Gen. SIMMONS, Speaker of House; Gen. JAMISON, President of the Convention; Mayor MACBETH, who acknowledged their thanks and compliments. The flag borne in front of the procession was that Capt. BERRY, of the steamer Columbia, hoisted off Governor’s Island. The city was alive with pleasurable excitement, and a number of residences, newspaper establishments and other public buildings, were illuminated.
Caleb Cushing, President Buchanan's Confidential Commissioner
Mr. CUSHING arrived last night, and remained five hours, and departed for Washington. The rumors are various as to his mission here.
The Legislature to-day changed the name of the Committee of Federal to Foreign Relations, and also appointed a Committee to report a style of State flag.
1) You can read Francis Wilkinson Pickens’ Inaugural Message (as governor) here. Apparently the address was on December 18, 1860.
2) Caleb Cushing was a doughface Breckinridge supporter who ended up supporting the Union during the Civil War.
