He thought the convention had been called to protest against another war which he was sure the Abolitionists were determined to force on the county.

"Another civil war is foreshadowed," said he, "unless the freedmen are placed on an equality with their previous masters.

If this cannot be accomplished, radical partisans, with a raging thirst for blood and plunder, are again ready to invade the Southern States and lay waste the country not already desolated, with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other.

These revengeful partisans would leave their country a howling wilderness for the want of more victims to gratify their insatiable cruelty.

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