Secession speeches of four Deep South governors who would rather fight than switch

• Douglas P. Starr ^[1]
  1. [1] Florida State University

     Florida State University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 38, nº 2, 1972, págs. 131-141
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860, the five Deep South governors wanted to get out of the Union, partly to protect their states’ slave‐holding status. Four of the governors (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi) urged their legislatures in public addresses to call special secession conventions; the fifth, Alabama, called such a convention himself, by‐passing the legislative route. This paper compares the four speeches for similarity of themes to determine the degree of uniformity in the thinking of southern political leaders.