The book Richard Hooker Wilmer, Second Bishop of Alabama; was written by author Whitaker, Walter C. (Walter Claiborne), 1867-1938 Here you can read free online of Richard Hooker Wilmer, Second Bishop of Alabama; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Richard Hooker Wilmer, Second Bishop of Alabama; a good or bad book?
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Wilmer was in daily attendance as a listener to the debates. He was strongly op- posed to the majority who were striving against secession and who strove successfully until, hos- tilities having actually begun and the President being about to call for volunteers, it was necessary cither to secede or to fight against their own sec- tion : "Dear Charles — I am there. Of course. And as to secessionism — I am there, of course. And as to Jeff Davis, I am there, too — saving one speech of his in whic...h he speaks of marching into the North. There he speaks as a fool. At that point he J^lun- ders. The game cock will fight anywhere. The dung hill rooster will fight just as well as long as he is on his own ground. A raid into the North, or into Washiuiiton, would rouse the old mettle of the North. I know them well. They will not come here; but woe to that Southern army that goes there. "The question of secession, and of a Southern Confederacy, and of Virginia's duty, is to me, and has been from the first, as clear as the noonday.
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