[Homer_J_Simpson]

The War Imminent: Formal Demand for the Surrender of Fort Sumpter – 2
Our Washington Dispatches – 2-4
The Forts in Charleston Harbor – 5
Our Washington Correspondence – 5-6
The Intentions of the Government – 6-7
The War Excitement: Anxiety about the Fleet of Relief – 7
Military and Naval Movements – 7
The Philadelphia Navy-Yard – 7
The Schooner Hudson at Key West – 7
Movement of Troops West – 7
The Charlestown Navy-Yard – 7
Important from Texas: Arrival of the Coatzacoalcos with United States Troops – 7-8
Latest Reports from Texas – 8
Important from Arizona: The Territory Voted Out of the Union – 8
Warlike Movements at Savannah – 8
Reports from New-Orleans – 8
Reports from Montgomery – 8
The Fort Sumpter Messengers at Norfolk – 8
The Virginia State Convention – 8
Charleston Passengers Landed at Norfolk – 8
Conflicting Views of Allegiance – 8
Editorial: National Necessities – 8-9
Editorial: Virginia and the Union – 9-10
Editorial: Abolition and Coercion – 10
Coals of Fire – 10
Editorial: The Doctrine of Secession – 10-11
Editorial: Slave Insurrection – 11
The Mexican Mission – 11
Passengers Sailed/Passengers Arrived – 11

[Hebrews 11:6]

It’s getting mighty serious! Point of no return and all that.

[KC_Lion]

It's come to this.

What awful days are ahead.

[BroJoeK]

"CHARLESTON, Thursday, April 11.

The Federal steamers are expected to-night. The city is filled with troops....

An officer has just arrived from Sullivan's Island, and informs me that three steamers were seen hovering off the coast yesterday for a considerable time."

But none of Lincoln's "war fleet" arrived until sunset on April 11, and that was just the small revenue cutter Harriet Lane.
The next arrival, still well offshore, at 3:00 AM Friday the 12th, was the large unarmed passenger ship SS Baltic, Capt. Fox commanding, carrying supplies.

By that time Confederates had already rejected Maj. Anderson's offer to surrender in a few days and announced bombardment would soon begin.

[BroJoeK]

"Editorial: The Doctrine of Secession – 10-11"

This editorial lists the signing statements from New York, Virginia & Rhode Island in ratifying the 1787 Constitution.
We've also seen those statements quoted many times on FR CW threads, in arguing for an alleged "right of secession."
The editors here point out: these statements do not refer to secession, but rather to amending the Constitution to withdraw powers which experience may show to be abused.
Such a process is not declared by a single state, or states, but rather by all the people of the United States, using procedures spelled out in our Constitution.

Or so say the Times editors, on the eve of civil war.

[BroJoeK]

Lest we suppose that our current age is unusually colorful in political language, the Times presents for our edification a catalogue of names used by Confederates for the US President & VP:

Confederate names for President Lincoln:

1. Orang-outang

2. Demon

3. Beast

4. Incarnate Devil

5. The Big Illinois Brute

6. Illinois Beast

7. Greasy Hoosier

8. Western Abolition bloodhound

9. Illinois Baboon

10. Old Ape Lincoln

Confederate names for Vice President Hamlin include:

1. Negro

2. N*gg*r

3. Mulatto

4. Half-breed

5. Octoroon

6. Filthy Maine negro

7. Illegitimate

8. Idiotic

9. "a general monster of such beastly depravity and crazy imbecility, that our Christian quill refuses to write the words in which he is depicted."

Now, can you imagine, if anyone learned such names as a child they would ever "un-learn" them in adulthood?