Record Data
Source citation
"Another Strong Blow for the Union," Fayetteville (NC) Observer, February 14, 1861, p. 3: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
Fayetteville Semi Weekly Observer
Newspaper: Headline
Another Strong Blow for the Union
Newspaper: Page(s)
3
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
ANOTHER STRONG BLOW FOR THE UNION. - Tennessee was treated as politely as her Southern sisters have been, and was invited to disunion by all sorts of sensation despatches [dispatches ] received and published just in time to affect her election on Saturday last. But Tennessee has not only given an overwhelming majority for the Union candidates, but voted down the Convention itself.
All hail, Tennessee! Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee have done their duty. It is North Carolina's turn next.