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A
political cartoon from 1861 shows Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
and Louisiana as men riding donkeys, following South Carolina's
lead toward a cliff.
Florida,
immediately behind South Carolina, cries, "Go it Carolina!
We are the boys to "wreck" the Union."
CREDIT:
"THE 'SECESSION MOVEMENT'." Currier & Ives 1861.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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