Perry County AlArchives History - Letters .....Letter From A. Hubbard To William H. Seward November 13, 1860
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Tuesday, November 13, 1860

      Marion, Ala Nov 13th 1860
Hon. Wm. H. Seward:

	Permit me to address you from the verry center of Secessionism & fire 
eating.  You will doubtless be surprised to hear that Gen. Hubbard has turned 
up in the refractory State of Alabama.  I came here for my health & have found 
great relief-But to my sorrow I find myself in the midst of Rebellion & 
Revolution.
	The Cotton States are all on fire.  Enlisting minute men as they are 
called & the Blue cockade is the Order of the day while Secession & a Southern 
Confederacy is the almost unanimous cry.  I am told by men in the highest 
Stations & by one who has lately returned from Washington that Mr. Buchanan has 
pledged himself that if any Southern State wished to Seceed, He would not 
oppose but would aid them.  This is understood to be the fact by all the Cotton 
States hense their great hast to plunge into Seccession immediately.  
	I own property here & cannot dispose of it nor get money.  Permit me 
Sir to call to your mind the case in 1832 when South Carolina threatened to 
Seceed more than 15000 men volunteered in the Northern States & tendered their 
services to the President to be ready at a minutes warning & it was probably 
this in a great measure that cooled them down.  Now if three or four Hundred 
thousand men were to volunteer by whole 
Regiments, armed & equipped & proffer their services to the President to be 
ready at his call to put down any insurrection in the Southern States, be 
assured it would do more to cool down these fire eaters than all the arguments 
in the world.  
	This is an important Town.  It is called the Athens of Ala.  It has a 
College & two large female Seminarys & therefore many of the first men in the 
South come here, the Gov’r also lives here, & I come in contact with them.  
They all agree in this, that the North has become so abolitionised that the 
South can not remain any longer in the Union with them & if Mr. Breckinridge or 
Joe Lane had been elected President they would still be for Secession.  It is 
that increasing & controlling Northern Majority that they fear & nothing 
else.  “This is the Truth”
	They sweare that Mr. Lincoln shall never be Enaugerated—as sure as He 
comes to Washington He will be shot, let the concequencies be what they may.
	Please write me by an early mail but do put on a Postage Stamp for if I 
were to receive a letter Franked by W. H. Seward I should be hung before 
night.  If it was known that I had written this letter I could not stay here a 
day.  I shall enclose this in a letter to the Hon. W. M. Dunn M C from 
Indiana.  This my dear Sir is no Land of Liberty & may God in his mercy deliver 
us from it.  

				With Great Respect
					I Remain Yours & c. 
						A. Hubbard

Source: Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress

Additional Comments:
Source: Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress

A. Hubbard was born about 1791 in Connecticut.  At the time he wrote this 
letter, Hubbard had no occupation and was living along with his wife Elizabeth 
in the home of H. Augustus Pond, a young Massachusetts born professor of vocal 
and instrumental music at Judson College in Marion, Alabama. [Lovelace, Siloam 
History, pp. 34-36 and 51; Harris, Heritage, v I, P. 173; 1860 Census of 
Marion, Perry County, Alabama, p. 743, August 23, 1860]


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