Impossible dream: State Sovereignty AND National Union?
From The New-York Times July 19, 1861:
FROM ILLINOIS.
CAIRO, Ill., Wednesday, July 17.
Last night some Secessionists at Nashville, Washington County, in this State, destroyed several dwellings belonging to loyal citizens, and cut down the Stars and Stripes, and hoisted in its place the secession flag. Several Union men of the town have been notified to leave immediately.
There is no news from the South.
In early June Seven Score and Ten posted an interesting article about the secession spirit in Cairo, Illinois. The secessionists there chopped up and burned their Douglas pole when they found out the Little Giant supported the Union. Nashville is about 100 miles due north of Cairo – as Google Maps fly. It is also about 110 miles south of the capital in Springfield.
