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

voted To submit directly 70 the people
the question as to whether Tennessee
should scccde an election 70 be held
June :. lS6l, and though Tennessee
had in it far large. mon sentiment
thar wa> 10 be found In any other
STATE which seeded. it, people voted
when the question was submitted to
them for secession. lUI.ul3. a4ain>t
l1,22:'- which wa- con >dcrably more
than Two u one. And ot the Il 20
votes against secession ..": Onn Of them
were in East Tennessee.
NEEDED THREE -IA.L>.
To sum ~, no people were ever
more united in favor Of any one thing
than were the people Of the eleven
States which scceied il favor Of the
Confederate cause after they had en-
barked in il. For therc was thon
practically no Union sentiment
amongst them. except in East Tcnncs-
sao and ii few rolntic, 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 IF Della
ware. Maryland kentucky aud Mis-
souri, did not secedc. and there can be
no doubt that at first Il majority Of
he people Of each Of them were op-
posed to it. And it mag have been
that the mon sentiment continued
to prevail in them even after the war
commenced. though there is grcat
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 nioni>t to the Scccssionist ranks,
as III the cases of Zen. Sterling Price,
OF Missouri: t;cn. Buckncr, Of Ken
tucky, and many others but be all
this as it may, those three States had
no chance to scccdc after the war be-
S""' -" i'olect "a u iiidJOIiIy Ol tHclT
people had desired it, For being in
the non they were practically in
possession Of the I'ederals when the
war started, and were held on to by
them with firm grip. Had they have
seeded, and had their peopl, been as
thoroughly united in favor of the Con-
fcderacy as those Of the eleven States
which did secedc, there is nothing
moro certain, unless it be something
which has already taken place, than
that there would have been to-day two
Anglo-Saxon republics on this CONT
ncnt whore there is now only one.
Because, notwithstanding its vast
superiority in numbers several hun
drcd 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
Confcdcracy did not havc-the aid Of
fleets to cooperate with its land forces,
and which co operation most certainly
saved Grants army from utter and
complete destruction the first day at
Shiloh, and saved McClellan's army
from final capture after its defeat in
the battles around Richmond, besides
which it's fleets enabled it to blockade
the ports cf 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 Ccnfederacy, it would have been
a sure winner. w.
Richmond, Va, March Is, 1899.
A.