Lots of Questions
The small Southern Papers supporting Federal Action. They felt it was a Federal Government action and not the North vs the South. The were supporting their country. They believed in National loyality vs states loyality. There were small pockets of Federal Support in the South. Some counties were almost totally National loyality counties. I was surprised to learn this. Though by far and away the vast majority were States Rights and Separatists.
Black (Negro was the PC term back then) papers evidently operated freely in the North. The reading is slow and overly descriptive (flowerly). So its going to take a couple of months to digest all of this.
The five to ten years before the war writers knew that war was going to come, someday. They hoped it wouldn't but felt that a violent resolution would eventually come. I don't think the war took anyone by surprise.
Keith
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