{"id":11440,"date":"2021-04-15T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:33:34","slug":"the-secession-of-north-carolina-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-secession-of-north-carolina-11\/","title":{"rendered":"A gross usurpation of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">RALEIGH, N. C., <em>April <\/em>15, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. SIMON CAMERON, <em>Secretary of War<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Your dispatch<sup>1<\/sup> is received, and if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South as in violation of the Constitution and a gross usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina. I will reply more in detail when your call is received by mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">JOHN W. ELLIS,<br \/>\n<em>Governor of North Carolina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;s proclamation calling out the militia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N. C., April 15, 1861. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: Your dispatch1 is received, and if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":104367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-11440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies","8":"tag-the-secession-of-north-carolina"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-W.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}