The Iron Furnace; or, Slavery and Secession

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Aughey John Hill. The Iron Furnace; or, Slavery and Secession

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. SECESSION

CHAPTER II. VIGILANCE COMMITTEE AND COURT-MARTIAL

CHAPTER III. ARREST, ESCAPE, AND RECAPTURE

CHAPTER IV. LIFE IN A DUNGEON

CHAPTER V. EXECUTION OF UNION PRISONERS

CHAPTER VI. SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE

CHAPTER VII. SOUTHERN CLASSES – CRUELTY TO SLAVES

CHAPTER VIII. NOTORIOUS REBELS. – UNION OFFICERS

CHAPTER IX. CONDITION OF THE SOUTH

CHAPTER X. BATTLES OF LEESBURG, BELMONT, AND SHILOH

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The speaker then retired amid the cheers of his audience.

Soon after this there came a day of rejoicing to many in Mississippi. The booming of cannon, the joyous greeting, the soul-stirring music, indicated that no ordinary intelligence had been received. The lightnings had brought the tidings that Abraham Lincoln was President elect of the United States, and the South was wild with excitement. Those who had been long desirous of a pretext for secession, now boldly advocated their sentiments, and joyfully hailed the election of Mr. Lincoln as affording that pretext. The conservative men were filled with gloom. They regarded the election of Mr. Lincoln, by the majority of the people of the United States, in a constitutional way, as affording no cause for secession. Secession they regarded as fraught with all the evils of Pandora’s box, and that war, famine, pestilence, and moral and physical desolation would follow in its train. A call was made by Governor Pettus for a convention to assemble early in January, at Jackson, to determine what course Mississippi should pursue, whether her policy should be submission or secession.

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“I understand the science of Phonography, and I am a correspondent of a Phonographic journal, but the journal eschews politics.”

Another member of the committee then interrogated me.

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