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A Diary from Dixie

Note 4 — I CHARLESTON, S. C. November 8, 1860-December 27, 1860

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Francis W. Pickens, Governor of South Carolina, 1860-62. He had been elected to Congress in 1834 as a Nullifier, but had voted against the “Bluffton movement.” From 1858 to 1860, he was Minister to Russia. He was a wealthy planter and had fame as an orator.

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