Excerpt from Indiana and Indianans, Vol. 2: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood This last editorial called forth a strong protest from Abel D. Streight, which is notable as the first clear pronouncement in favor of forcible resistance to secession in a State, the vast majority of whose people were devoted to the Union. Streight's letter, published in the J ournal of November 21, closed with these words: f'is war so dreadful or peace so desirable that we should consent to the ...
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Excerpt from Indiana and Indianans, Vol. 2: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood This last editorial called forth a strong protest from Abel D. Streight, which is notable as the first clear pronouncement in favor of forcible resistance to secession in a State, the vast majority of whose people were devoted to the Union. Streight's letter, published in the J ournal of November 21, closed with these words: f'is war so dreadful or peace so desirable that we should consent to the'overthrow of the Constitution prepared by the fathers of our country as a sacred guar antee for our liberties and the basis of our unexampled prosperity? May it never be said that we are the degenerate sons of a brave and noble ancestry, who are too timorous to preserve the liberties so gal lantly won by the immortal heroes of the Revolution. Streight was a notable character. His father, a native of Vermont, moved to Steuben County, New York, and settled on a farm, where Abel D. Was born June 17, 1828. At the age of seventeen, having passed his boyhood on' the farm, with ordinary common school advantages, he purchased his time of his father, until twenty-one, at sixty dollars a year, and started out for himself.' He learned the carpenter's trade, and at nineteen took a contract for a large mill, Which he successfully com pleted. He purchased a saw-mill, and engaged in the lumber business at Wheeler, N. Y., until 1858, .when he removed to Cincinnati. The following year he removed to Indianapolis, and engaged in publishing. Not satisfied with newspaper articles, he published a pamphlet on the duty of the hour, urging the preservation of the Union at all hazards, and reproducing articles from The Federalist, President J ackson 's secos sion message, and other standard expressions of American statesmen on the same patriotic lines. In September, 1861, he joined the army, as Colonel of the fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front, seeing actual service first at the siege of Corinth. In April, 1863, Streight was sent by Rosecrans, with a force of men, to cut the railroads in western Georgia, over which supplies were sent to Bragg's army. The force divided, and Streight, With about two-thirds of it, was surrounded on May 3 by a large force under General Forrest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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