North Carolina votes narrowly not to hold a secession convention

The call for a convention had passed both houses of the North Carolina legislature earlier and this was put to the people.  The results showed the election of eighty-five delegates who ran in favor of the Union and thirty-five for secession.  Moreover, the broader question of whether the convention should be held at all failed by a razor-thing margin, 46,603 to 46,408.  North Carolina ultimately became the last state to secede and join the Confederacy, on May 20, 1861.  (By John Osborne)   
Source Citation
Henry McGilbert Wagstaff, State Rights and Political Parties in North Carolina - 1776-1861 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1906),135. 
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