There was no violence, but feeling deepened.

Men put restraint upon their words, but their hearts behind them were full of bitterness, bitterness on one side because the Northern sympathizers were so stubborn, and bitterness on the other, because the Southern sympathizers showed the same stubbornness.

Friends of a lifetime used but cold words to each other and saw widening between then, a gulf which none could cross.

Supporters of either cause poured into the little capital.

Tremendous pressure was brought to bear upon House and Senate.
Members were compelled to strive with every kind of emotion or appeal, love of the Union, cool judgment in the midst of alarms, state patriotism, kinship, and all the conflicting ties which pull at those who stand upon the border line on the eve of a great civil war.