Governor Moore: Let's settle the conflict now
From The New-York Times January 24, 1861:
THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.; UNCOMPROMISING MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
BATON ROUGE, Tuesday, Jan. 22.
In the Legislature to-day the Governor’s Message was read.
He says our enemies will find that throughout Louisiana we are one people, one in heart, one in mind, and are not to be cajoled into an abandonment of our rights, and not to be subdued. All hopes are at an end that the dissensions between the North and South can be healed. All the propositions of moderate men have been contemptuously rejected, and the cry of the North is for coercion. There is no longer a doubt of the wisdom of the policy which demands that the conflict shall come and be settled now.
The tone of the Message is uncompromising.
The Louisiana secession convention is, or soon will be, meeting. As Civil War Online reported, Louisiana forces, by order of Governor Moore, captured federal installations earlier in January. You could say that Louisiana and its governor Thomas Overton Moore have some part in making matters hopeless.
Once again coercion seems a hot button that stirs up the South.
