THE DISUNION QUESTION: Third Letter from Mr. Raymond to Hon. W.L. Yancey; Editorial-The Laws Must be Enforced, Annexation of Cuba Made Easy (12/13/1860)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/13/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Hon. W.L. YANCEY -- Dear Sir: You will see from my last letter that I have no faith in the validity or sincerity of the reasons assigned for a secession of the Southern States. The motive for that movement is neither the failure of the North to surrender fugitive slaves, nor the enactment of Personal Liberty bills, nor the practical inability of Southern slaveholders to take their slaves into the Territories of the United States. If you could have full and sufficient guarantees upon every one of these points you would be just as zealous, though not perhaps so sanguine, an advocate of secession as yon are now. What you and your associate conspirators seek is the restoration of the African Slave-trade. To use your own words, "We of Alabama want slaves to be cheap; -- we want to buy, not to sell them. It is a Virginia idea that slaves ought to be high. Virginia wants $1,500 each for her negroes: -- we want to get them cheaper." "CHEAP NEGROES" is the grand consummation at which you aim, -- the mighty motive which rouses you to the task of destroying a Government which was formed to "secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

You will not understand me as implying that this is the motive of all whom you have enlisted in the secession movement. If it were, you would not persist so vehemently in excluding all but the Cotton States from your counsels. You would have admitted Virginia and Tennessee and Kentucky to a share in the conduct of your conspiracy. If this were a movement in the interest of all the Slaveholding States, it would have been decided in a general convention of them all.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Disunion Question: Third Letter from Mr. Raymond to Hon. W.L. Yancey – 2-5
Anarchy in a Southern City – 5-6
Editorial: The Laws Must be Enforced – 6
Editorial: Relative Value of Domestic and Foreign Trade – 6-7
Editorial: Annexation of Cuba Made Easy – 7
Editorial: Information Wanted about Secession – 7
Wanted-A Definition That Will Stay Defined – 7
The Disunion Movement: Latest Indication from the South-Counter-Movements in the North – 8
The Kansas Troubles – 8
The Famine in Kansas – 8-9
Other Cities Have Aldermen – 9
Lectures on Shakespeare – 9

[allendale]

Spain would have sold Cuba relatively cheaply. Northerners feared it would ultimately become a slave state.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[mac_truck]

You should stop posting these articles...too much like current events.

[Abigail Adams]

I always get confused by these articles, as they look like current news titles. What is their purpose?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I always get confused by these articles, as they look like current news titles. What is their purpose?

I date each title to avoid tricking readers. Their original purpose was to inform the public of all the news fit to print. My current purpose is to provide a forum for studying the history of the Civil War era.

[rdl6989]

Several of us are discussing the Civil War 160 years later.