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From the N. O. Times Picayune issue of Dec. 30, 1860.
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
A large meeting of the citizens of the parish of St. Mary was held at the courthouse in Franklin, on Saturday, the 23rd., inst., in answer to a call, numerously signed and published in the Planters’ Banner of the 15th., inst., to express the sentiments of the people upon the issues between the North and the South, and the best method to be adopted by the people of our State, and the South, to protect their honor and secure their rights.
The Hon. J. W. Walker was called to the chair and D. Dennett and Seth W. Lewis, were appointed secretaries. Upon taking the chair the president offered some appropriate remarks on the present condition of the country, setting forth the disadvantage of hasty state action, and the benefits of the calm deliberation of a united South.
The following is a list of the vice presidents: Hon. T. W. Palfrey, John m. Bateman, Dr. H. J. Saunders, Theo Alexander, R. Stout, Dr. J. S. Grout, Richard Duke, Thomas Eilcoxen, Esq., Hon. P. C. Bethel, Dr. Ethan Allen, J. L. Cowan, Wm. Garrett, Hon. Joshua Baker, Benjamin Hudson, Esq., David Berwick, Jesse E. Lacy, Nathan Berwick, Julius A. Johnson, Davidson Bell, W. F. Weeks, Ursin Perrett, T. M. Johnson, Joseph A. Frere, John B. Murphy, Louis Grevemberg, Donelson Caffery, Euphrosis Carlin, Andrew Smith, Samuel L. Randlet, Joseph Olivier.more...
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Source: Morgan City Review
3-23-1927
Flag at Brashear
In the issue of Sunday, March 20 of the New Orleans States, appears an article by John P. Coleman, which includes clippings from the Delta, a newspaper published at the Crescent City in 1861. A portion of the article is devoted to the town of Brashear, now Morgan City.
Brashear, a prominent citizen of Brashear City, now Morgan City, writing the Delta January 13, had this:
“The Pelican flag floats to the breeze, and waves its welcome over our quiet and beautiful city. At 3:30 o’clock it glided gracefully from the hands of our worthy citizens, Captain Kerr, and before it reached the peak, a salute was fired and three heart-stirring cheers given for it. Fifteen guns were then fired in honor of the Southern states. These were followed by a salute for noble Louisiana, and one for each of the Gulf Sates, who have taken prompt and decisive action. The last salute was given for our gallant parish and its well-known delegates, Leclerc Fusillier, John Olivier, and Washington Smith. It floats quietly, like a dove resting upon her wing, waving its beautiful folds over the heads of brave men—men ready for action, ready to protect the interests of Louisiana and of the South; men ready to throw off the yoke of Northern oppression, and declare themselves a free and independent people.”more...
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Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana
Passed in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge on 26 January 1861, By a Vote of 113-17
An Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Louisiana and other States, united with her under the compact entitled “The Constitution of the United States of America.”
We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is herby declared and ordained, That the ordinance passed by us in Convention on the 22nd day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and eleven, whereby the Constitution were adopted; and all laws and ordinance by which the State of Louisiana became a member of the Federal Union, be and the same are hereby repealed and abrogated; and that the union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of “The United States of America” is hereby dissolved. more...
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CHAPTER VI
THE SECESSION OF LOUISIANA
(War of the Rebellion official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies)
(Series I Vol. 1, Chapter VI., page 489-501)
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January 10—February 19, 1861.
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SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
January 10, 1861.
—United States Arsenal and Barracks at Baton Rouge seized.
January 11, 1861.
—Forts Jackson and Saint Philip seized.
January 14, 1861.
—Fort Pike seized.
January 26, 1861.
—Ordinance of secession adopted.
January 28, 1861.
—Fort Macomb seized.
United States property in the hands of Army officers seized at New Orleans. more...
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The Development of Creoles in
Louisiana to the Civil War
By: Captain Edward E. Friloux, N. O. F. D.;
Copyright 6/24/2009
Louisiana had a very different background and development process than the other Confederate States. The remainder of the sates that formed the United States in 1860, with the exception of Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, had been established and settled by mostly persons of English, Irish, Dutch, and German ancestry along with the native Indians found in their territories. Even though the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri had a few French and Spanish wilderness settlers, the great majority of the residents in them were of the ancestry found in the New England States. Florida had been mainly settled by Spanish with some English merchants and traders along with the native Seminole and Creek Indians until approximately 1819 when Americans started settling there and the state eventually became a part of the United States after being ceded by the Kingdom of Spain. Texas had been settled initially by the Spanish an the native Indians until the beginning of the nineteenth century when Americans were allowed to settle there. In 1835-1836 Texas won its independence from Mexico and admitted as a State to the United States in 1845 which precipitated the Mexican War in 1846.
Even though the sate of Louisiana was a part of the United States in 1860, the majority of its population was of French descent. There were inhabitants whose ancestry was of other nations, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Haiti, Canary Islands, as well as the United States or Anglo-Americans—however, the French influence was the dominant factor throughout the state. The French were divided into three distinctive groups—Creoles, Cajuns, and Frankified Germans.
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Was Secession Treason?
Memoirs
Of
Service Afloat
During the
War Between the States
By: Admiral Raphael Semmes
Chapter IV
Pages 45-51
A few more words, and we shall be in condition to answer the question which stands at the head of this chapter. Being a legal question, it will depend entirely upon the constitutional right the Southern States may have had to withdraw from the Union, without reference to considerations of expediency, or of moral right; these latter will be more appropriately considered, when we come to speak of the causes which impelled the Southern States to the step. I have combated many of the arguments presented by the other side, but a few others remain to be noticed.
It has been said, that, admitting that the Constitution was a federal compact, yet the States did in fact cede away part of their sovereignty, and from this the inference has been deduced, that they no longer remained sovereign for the purpose of recalling the part, which had been ceded away. This is a question which arises wholly under the laws of nations. It is admitted, that the States were independent Sovereignties, before they formed the Constitution. We have only, therefore, to consult the international code, to ascertain to what extent the granting away of a portion of their sovereignty affected the remainder. Battle, treating of this identical point, speaks as follows: “Several sovereign and independent States may unite themselves together by a perpetual confederacy, without ceasing to be, each individually, a perfect State. They will, together, constitute a federal republic; their joint deliberations will not impair the sovereignty of each member, though they may, in certain respects, put some restraint upon the exercise of it, in virtue of voluntary engagements.” That was just what the American States did, when they formed the Federal Constitution; they put some voluntary restraint upon their sovereignty, for the furtherance of a common object.
If they are restrained, by the Constitution, from doing certain things, the restraint was self-imposed, for it was they who ordained, and established the instrument, and not a common superior. They, each, agreed that they would forbear to do certain things, if their copartners would forbear to do the same things. As plain as this seems, no less an authority than that of Mr. Webster has denied it; for, in his celebrated argument against Mr. Calhoun, already referred to, he triumphantly exclaimed, that the States were not sovereign, because they were restrained of a portion of their liberty by the Constitution. See how he perverts the whole tenor of the instrument, in his endeavor to build up those manufactories of which we spoke in the last chapter. He says: “However men may think this ought to be, the fact is, that the people of the United States have chosen to impose more.....
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Louisiana History
Published quarterly by the
Louisiana Historical Association
In cooperation with
The Center for Louisiana Studies
Of
The University of Southwestern Louisiana
(The following article is reprinted by the Young-Sanders Center with
Permission granted by the Louisiana Historical Association and
The Center for Louisiana Studies)
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Volume XVI, No. 1
Winter 1975
Pages 5-37
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The United Confederate
Veterans in Louisiana
By: Herman Hattaway
Department of History
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
The Youthful experiences of a generation may remain forever in a whole people’s memory, poignantly recalled touchstones that determine thereafter the entire course and shape of their lives. So it was with those Southerners who fought the Civil War; “in youth a fire touched upon their hearts,” and for them the conflict became an epic. During their mature and later years, old men in gray—the former Confederate soldiers—moved by their nostalgia, banded together to share wartime recollections and to work toward certain goals. In 1889 they formed a fraternal organization, The United Confederate Veterans (UCV). Thus in their lives did the war last for nearly one hundred years, reminding one of the popular 1918 saying which predicted for World War I a few years of fighting and more than ninety of “rolling up the barbed wire.”1
The UCV came into being at New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 10, 1889. That the veterans waited for nearly a quarter of a century to form this organization has intrigued historians. (The Northern Grand Army of the Republic sprang up in Illinois in 1866 and, although it remained small until the 1880s, it spread rapidly throughout the country.)2 Varied theories explain the long Southern delay; the consensus emphasizes real or feared Northern intimidation, introspection and timidity, and widespread difficult more
1 Dixon Wecter, When Johnny comes Marching Home (Cambridge, 1944), 3.
2 Mary R. Dearing, Veterans in Politics: The Story of the G.A.R. (Baton Rouge, 1952).
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