Comments from Out of State Newspapers

Richmond Whig, September 13, 1860

“We have no doubt that the Breckinridge Disunionists would readily aid the impression that invaders and insurrectionists abound in the Southern States. Their object is to increase the enmity between the sections, in order to bring about a dissolution of the Union.”

Newbern (North Carolina) Weekly Progress, October 23, 1860

Expected sensational news to be “all the rage now until after the election. We wish it was over.”

Raymond (Mississippi) Hinds County Gazette, November 7, 1860

Claimed that all “intelligent citizens” believed the plot “as groundless fears of very timid people, or the fabrics manufactured for political consumption.”

Montgomery Weekly Mail, August 3, 1860

“This [the fires in Texas] is the beginning of Black [Abolitionists] Republican operations in the South! This is practical Lincolnism! This is what we must ‘acquiesce in,’ if we ‘acquiesce in’ Black Republican government. If Lincoln is elected, let the people see, by the light of the Texas flames, that we shall be forced to fight or go out.”