Ruffin, Edmund. The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Edited by William K. Scarborough. 3 vols. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972-1989. Volume 1
Breckinridge, abolition plots in Texas, 470 Jamaica, race mixing, 471 William Walker, killed, filibustering, 471 Prince of Wales, visit to Mount Vernon, 472 Pennsylvania election, Lincoln, 473 Lincoln's election and secession, North Carolina, Governor Ellis, 474 Discussion of secession, women unionists, 475 Upper South, unionism, future of slavery, 475-76 Ruffin, Rhett and Charleston Mercury, 477-78 Northern people greatly underestimate disunion sentiment, 478 Fears of slave insurrections, 478 Yancey as Patrick Henry in secession crisis, 479 Lincoln election and South Carolina secession, 480 Voting for Breckinridge reluctantly, 481 Lincoln's election and possible secession, 481-82 Lincoln election, sentiment in North Carolina and South Carolina, 483-84 Bishop Patrick N. Lynch, 484 South Carolina and Secession, 483-93 Fort Moultrie, 488, 490 Prospects for secession, 491 Ruffin speech in South Carolina, 495-96 Northern opinion about secession, 498 Georgia secession, 500ff Suspension of specie payments by northern and southern banks, 502, 504 Ruffin meeting with John Letcher, 503-4 James Montgomery and Kansas Jayhawkers, 504 Ruffin not appreciated in his native Virginia, 505 Northerners celebrating John Brown, 506 Buchanan message to Congress, 508-9 Compromise measures and congressional committee, 510-11 South Carolina secession convention, 511-15 Move of Federal troops from Moultrie to Sumter, 517 Charleston, Federal coercion, 521-22 Florida secession convention, 521-28 Buchanan, fasting, humiliation, and prayer, 523-24 Florida forts, 524 Ruffin speaks to Florida secession convention, 526 Fort Sumter, Robert Barnwell Rhett, 529-30 Forts in Charleston harbor, 531-32 Virginia secession convention election, 537-38, 542-44 Secession, federal government, and possible war, 538-42 Aversion to democracy, 543
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Possible compromise, peace conference, 543-44 England's position in sectional crisis, 546 Confederate constitution and government, 548 Peace conference and compromise measures, 548-49 Confederate tariff, 550 Election of Davis and Stephens, 551 Peace convention and Crittenden compromise, Lincoln, 552-53 *Perfectly secure against slave violence, not much security, 556-57 Peace conference, John Tyler, James Seddon, 558 Lincoln inaugural address, 560 Charleston, 561ff Plantation soils, 564 Secession but no war yet, mails, visits, treason, 568-69 Tariffs, 570, 573 Charleston, 573ff Fort Sumter, 574ff Confederate constitution and Rhett, 575-76, 578 Public sentiment and secession, 576 Virginia secession convention vote, 578-79 Secession of Virginia, 606ff.
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