Huge of this city who, notwithstanding his being a South Carolina man. This is the fact and Scott repeated it to Col.
Scott begged Lincoln not to do it hut he replied, “What in hell will become of the Republican party.” 1 St ou not to send armaments to the South. We are nol to be subjugated by Lintoln and his hordes.Īll this has been brought about by the wicked refusal of Lincoln to hear and be advised by Gen. Thirty-six hours ago a majority of our people were for peaceable separation, and I may say for peace at all hazards, but now the man does not exist in these parts who is not for the defense of our city against the inroads or passage of troops from the North. It is a yawning gulf as long as a man is left to do the death. Let any more Northern troops attempt passage of this city and not one will live to tell the story.
Possibly all may be slaughtered but by the God in heaven, we are determined to die in the work, and not a man or woman have I seen or heard of but are so determined. Wc have expected lor thirty-six hours war to the knife. I have received your dispatch, and while I thank you for your kindness in the offer, we, both Lucy and myself, are not disposed to run,-much less into (he arms of internai abolitionism. Pratt, are reprinted here as a moving example of the way the war turned good brothers into enraged enemies.-BRUCE CATTON Elizabeth Pratt Holthusen of New York, great-graiiddtinghter of John C. Letter followed letter, until at lust the brothers were, bitter foes, showing-in the words they put on paper-just why the “war between brothers” became a byword. Jabez replied in anger, blaming all of the trouble on Northern hotheads. When news of it reached Boston, John telegraphed to Jabez, ollering him a haven in the Bay State. Both were sober businessmen, in their forties, and they appraised this fight from opposite angles. Pratt lived in Boston his brother, Jabez D. The riot infuriated many people, among them the Massachusetts-born Pratt brothers. Among the contingents that headed for Washington was the 6th Massachusetts, which marched through Baltimore on April 10, got into a jight with a street crowd, and reached the capital only after a melee in which both soldiers and civilians were killed. The Civil War began in mid-April, 1861, with the bombardment of Fort Suniter. Now and again tlie brothers come under the magnifying glass and can be seen, hot and bitler against one another. The Civil War was, really, a war of brother against brother. Sometimes the, weariest old clichés turn out to be, true.
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