Memphis Daily Appeal [Memphis, TN], December 9, 1860
A gentleman of this city, now travelling in Mississippi, says the Nashville Gazette, writes back to a friend as follows:
The further down I get, the more secession I see. Not content with wearing the blue cockade themselves, the people put them up on wagons, carriages, riding horses, etc. At one place where I stopped, all the negroes had them on. You may safely put Mississippi down as dead out for secession.