Nov 27  The Question of Secession
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 27/11/2016

Ralph Shields presents today's Natchez History Minute about the call by Gov. John J. Pettus on November 26, 1860, for a convention to determine if Mississippi would secede or not.  A "fire-eater," Gov. Pettus called on other states to prepare for the inevitability of secession.