Editorial Commentary
Brief chronology
of the secession crisis.
Suggestions for further
reading.
Links to Related Sites of
Interest
- Editorial commentary:
- "The Question
of the Hour," by James Russell Lowell
- Charleston
Mercury editorial of
February 28, 1860
- Charleston
Mercury editorial of October
11, 1860
- Nashville
Republican Banner editorial
of January 25, 1861
- Washington
(Arkansas) Telegraph
editorial of January 13, 1865
- New Orleans Daily
Picayune editorial of
November 4, 1860
- DeBow's
Review on re-opening the
slave trade, March, 1858
- DeBow's Review
on the attitudes of non-slaveholders, January,
1861
- DeBow's Review
on the destiny of cotton culture, May, 1858
- DeBow's Review
on the destiny of the slave states, September,
1854
- Richmond Enquirer
editorial of March 23, 1861
- "Southern
Punch" on secession and slavery; "The
New Heresy