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Title: The Great Conspiracy, Part 2.

Author: John Alexander Logan

Release Date: June 11, 2004 [EBook #7134]

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THE GREAT CONSPIRACY

Its Origin and History

Part 2

BY

JOHN LOGAN

CHAPTER VI.

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY MATURING.

THE 6th of November, 1860, came and passed; on the 7th, the prevailing
conviction that Lincoln would be elected had become a certainty, and
before the close of that day, the fact had been heralded throughout the
length and breadth of the Republic. The excitement of the People was
unparalleled. The Republicans of the North rejoiced that at last the
great wrong of Slavery was to be placed "where the People could rest in
the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction!" The
Douglas Democracy, naturally chagrined at the defeat of their great
leader, were filled with gloomy forebodings touching the future of their
Country; and the Southern Democracy, or at least a large portion of it,
openly exulted that at last the long-wished-for opportunity for a revolt
of the Slave Power, and a separation of the Slave from the Free States,
was at hand. Especially in South Carolina were the "Fire-eating"
Southrons jubilant over the event.

["South Carolina rejoiced over the election of Lincoln, with
bonfires and processions." p. 172, Arnold's "Life of Abraham
Lincoln."

"There was great joy in Charleston, and wherever 'Fire Eaters' most
did congregate, on the morning of November 7th. Men rushed to
shake hands and congratulate each other on the glad tidings of
Lincoln's election. * * * Men thronged the streets, talking,
laughing, cheering, like mariners long becalmed on a hateful,
treacherous sea, whom a sudden breeze had swiftly wafted within