[KrisKrinkle]

...Pennsylvania will be put on war footing immediately.

Massachusetts is said to have six thousand six hundred and seventy men, all equipped and ready to march at twelve hours notice.

New York State, according to the same authority, is pledged to furnish ten thousand men at forty eight hours notice, and other states in proportion.

Illinois and other Western States, adds the Herald, are begging to be called into the field.

Like I wrote in post 19, Lincoln couldn't have done much of anything without the support of the Northern States that elected him—twice. And maybe he gets a bad rap.

[rustbucket]

Like I wrote in post 19, Lincoln couldn't have done much of anything without the support of the Northern States that elected him—twice.

One of the newspaper editorials about Lincoln's first inaugural speech said something similar. From the Baltimore (Maryland) Sun:

The inaugural as a whole, breathes the spirit of mischief. … The fact is as boldly stated as such a man as Lincoln dared to do it, that if the North will sustain him he will coerce and subjugate the South.