Everybody Now Is for the Union: April–May
Everybody Now Is for the Union: April–May
This chapter discusses the negative response of Northerners to South Carolina's seizure of Fort Moultrie and the other federal defenses at Charleston, and the fury they felt with the attack on the Star of the West. Passionate differences over slavery's extension and fugitive slaves, compromise, and coercion had disintegrated in a burst of patriotism, a reaction grounded in the near-universal perception of unreasonable, unprovoked aggression on the part of the Palmetto State. President Buchanan, however, had retreated from his bold stance, conciliatory leaders in Congress had led a resurgent procompromise campaign, time had passed with no further excitement, and the groundswell of nationalist unity faded as quickly as it rose.
Keywords: Northerners, South Carolina, Fort Moultrie, Charleston, slavery's extension
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