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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SECESSION OF WINGERT'S CORNERS. 39 THE SECESSION OF WINGERT'S CORNERS. Wingert's Corners, Ohio, March the 21st, 1861. South Carliny and sevral other uv the trooly Dimikratic States hevin secesht ? gone orf, I may say, onto a journey after ther rites ? Wingert's Corners, ez trooly Dimecratic ez any uv em, hez follered soot. A meetin wuz held last nite, uv wich I wuz chairman, to take the matter uv our grievances into consideration, and it wuz finally resolved that nothin short uv seceshn wood remedy our woes. Therefore the follerin address, wich I rit, wuz adopt- id and ordered to be publisht: TO THE WORLD In takin a step wich may, possibly, involve the state uv wich we hev bin heretofore a part into blood and convulshuns, a decent respeck for the opinion uv the world requires us to give our reasons for takin that step. Wingert's Corners hez too long submitted to the imperioua dictates uv a tyranikle goverment. Our whole histry hez bin wun uv aggreshn on the part uv the State, and uv meek and pashent endoorence on ours. It refoosed to locate the State Capitol at ihe Corners, to the great detnment uv ouT'patnotic owners uv reel estate. In this letter the argument of the States Rights secessionist is stated rather than travestied. One of the threats relied upon by the Southern oligarchy tq awaken fears in the North was, that the trade of the South should be withdrawn from Northern merchants. Our merchant, at Wingert's Corners, congratulating himself on the opening of trade with the Black Swamp, and his release from his Cincinnati debts, is, or was, the exact type of many of the Southern secessionists. Southern economists really imagined that they could control the laws of trade, or create new ones to suit their own fancy; results demonstrated t...