A division of similar proportion in the popular vote would have stripped the secession of Georgia of all moral force, and hence the people were not allowed to pass upon the question.
ACTION OF OTHER COTTON STATES.
Georgia was really induced to secede, only upon the delusive suggestion that better terms could be made with the National Government by going out for a season than by remaining steadfastly loyal.

The influence of Alexander H.Stephens, while he was still loyal, was almost strong enough to hold the State in the Union; and but for the phantasm of securing better terms outside, the Empire State of the South would have checked and destroyed the Secession movement at the very outset.

Mississippi followed Jefferson Davis with a vote amounting almost to unanimity.

Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama followed with secession ordained by conventions and no vote allowed to the people.

Texas submitted the ordinance, after the other States had seceded, and by the force of their example carried it by a vote of about three to one.