(FORESEEING THE ATTACK ON FORTSUMTER)
$250.00
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Prophetic content A.L.S., 6pp., 4to., Statesville, N.C., Mar. 4, 1861 in which Marshall Bell writes a friend. In part: "... [I will] give you a more satisfactory account of our state of affairs.. Iredell County gave a majority of 1,627 against a convention [for succession], while the Southern candidates were put off with a vote barely large enough to recognize the fact that they were in the field... To be bullied by a set of fanatical Black Republicans & then have their actions ratified by a Southern county... well calculated to smooth down the feathers of State pride... Wake has elected Lincoln candidates. So has Orange - Rowan - Yadkin and most counties generally in which Whig and democratic parties were nearly equal... In a short time, we will have the enviable pleasure of seeing the border States occupy enviable position towards the North that Ireland has held for a long time toward England. And yet it is the rankest treason to lift a voice or cast a vote against the obvious current of our National affairs... There is very little idea that Mr. Lincoln will give him command of the expedition to relieve Major Anderson at Fort Sumter... but there is no telling to what lofty situation he will arrive at after a sufficient length of time..." Toned, folds, and a small hole at fold juncture, still good.