South Carolina promptly seceded after the result of the Presidential election was known.

Other Southern States proposed to follow.

In some of them the Union sentiment was so strong that it had to be suppressed by force.

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri, all Slave States, failed to pass ordinances of secession; but they were all represented in the so-called congress of the so-called Confederate States.

The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, in 1861, Jackson and Reynolds, were both supporters of the rebellion and took refuge with the enemy.