olding office under the
old Government should be forever banished from that State, and if
he undertook to represent the State in the Congress of the United
States, he should, in addition, be guilty of treason and his property
confiscated.

The other Border States failed to break up their relation to the
Union, though in all of them (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and
Missouri) various irregular expedients were resorted to, to declare
them a part of the Confederacy. From their people, however, much
material and moral support was given to the Confederate cause.

(101) Jefferson's _Works_, viii., p. 403.--Notes on Virginia.

(102) _Lincoln_ (Nicolay and Hay), vol. ii., pp. 299-314.

(103) _Annual Cyclopaedia_ (Appleton), 1861, p. 123.

(104) For this letter, see _Lincoln_ (N. and H.), vol. ii., p. 306.

(105) The prophecy: "The rebellion, which began where Charleston
is, shall end where Charleston _was_," was fulfilled.

For a vivid, though sad description of Charleston at the end of
the war, by an eye-witness, see _Civil war in Am._ (Draper), vol.
i, p. 564. Andrew's Hall, where the first Ordinance passed, and
the Institute in which it was signed, were then charred rubbish.

The _Demon_ war had been abroad in Charleston--who respects not
life or death.

(106) Sam Houston was the rightful Governor of Texas in 1861, but
on the adoption of an Ordinance of Secession (February 24, 1861)
he declined to take an oath of allegiance to the new government
and was deposed by a convention March 16, 1861. Just previous to
the vote of the State on ratifying the ordinance, at Galveston,
before an immense, seething, secession audience, with few personal
friends to support him, in face of threatened violence, he denounced
the impolicy of Secession, and painted a prophetic picture of the
consequences that would result to his State from it. He said:

"Let me tell you what is coming on the heels of secession. The
time will come when your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers,
will be herded together like sheep and cattle, at the point of the
bayonet, and your mothers and wives, your sisters and daughters,
will ask: Where are they? You may, after the sacrifice of countless
millions of treasure and hundreds and thousands of precious lives,
succeed, if God is not against you, in winning Southern independence.
But I doubt it. It is a bare possibility at best. I tell you that
while I believe, with you, in the doctrine o