The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-29

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voted to submit directly to the people
the question as to whether Tennessee
should secede atan election to be held
June S, 1861, and though Tennessee
had in it far larger Union sentiment
thar was to be found in any other
State which seeded, its people voted,
when the question was submitted to
them: for secession. 104,913, against
AZ ,239-which was considerably more
than two to one. And Of the A. ,238
votes against secession 80, 600 Of them
were in East Tennessee.
NEEDED THREE STATES.
To sum up, no people were ever
more united in favor of any one thing
than were the people Of the eleven
States which seceded in favor of the
Confederate cause after they had en-
barked in it. For there was then
practically no Union sentiment
amongst them, except in East Tennes-
see and few counties in Northwest
Virginia, now part Of West Virginia.
Everywhere else among them, what
ever sentiment of that kind there may
have been, rapidly disappeared. The
four border Southern States Of Della
ware. Maryland, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, did not secede, and there can be
no doubt that at 6rsta majority Of
the people Of each of them were op-
posed to it. And it may have been
that the Union sentiment continued
to prevail in them even after the war
commenced, though there lis great
reason to believe that such was not
the case in the States of Maryland,
Kentucky and Missouri, as there we're
certainly many changes in them from
the Unionist to the Secessionist ranks,
as in the cases Of Gen. Sterling Price,
Of Missouri; Gen. Buckner, of Ken
lucky, and many others. But be all
this as it may, those three States had
no chance to secede after the war be-
gan, no matter if majority Of their
people had desired it. For being in
the Union they we're practically in
possession Of the Federals when the
war started, and were held on to by
them with firm grip. Had they have
seeded, and had their people been as
thoroughly united in favor Of the Con-
federacy as those Of the eleven States
which did secede, there is nothing
more certain, unless it be something
which has already taken place, than
that there would have been to-day two
| Anglo-Sa1on republics on this conti-
nent where there is now only one.
Because, Notwithstanding its vast
superiority in numbers-several hun
dred thousand of which superiority
was obtained by enlistment among the
Union men and negro population Of
those border Southern States; and
Notwithstanding it had that which the
CoDfederacy did not have-the aid Of
fleets to cooperate with its land forces,
and which cooperation most certainly
saved Grants army from utter and
complete destruction the first day at
Shiloh, and saved Mcclellan army
from final capture after its defeat in
the battles around Richmond, besides
which its fleets enabled it to blockade
the ports of the Confederacy, and
thus prevented them from shipping
| their cotton to Europe and obtaining
the supplies which they needed-in
spite Of all those and other advantages,
the North had close, very close,
call in the struggle, so close that had
the full weight Of the three populous
and wealthy Southern States Of Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri, with
all their other great resources, been
thrown into the scale on the side Of
the Confederacy, it would have been
sure winner. W..
Richmond, Va, March Is, 1899.
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