There were Virginian officers who did not thus go with their State.  Of these were Scott himself, and G. H. Thomas; and Farragut, the great sailor, was from Tennessee.

Throughout the free States of the North there took place a national uprising of which none who remember it have spoken without feeling anew its spontaneous ardour.  Men flung off with delight the hesitancy of the preceding months, and recruiting went on with speed and enthusiasm.  Party divisions for the moment disappeared.  Old Buchanan made public his adhesion to the Government.  Douglas called upon Lincoln to ask how best he could serve the public cause, and, at his request, went down to Illinois to guide opinion and advance recruiting there; so employed, the President’s great rival, shortly after, fell ill and died, leaving the leadership of the Democrats to be filled thereafter by more scrupulous but less patriotic men.  There was exultant confidence in the power of the nation to put down rebellion, and those who realised the peril in which for many days the capital and the administration were placed were only the more indignantly determined.  Perhaps the most trustworthy record of popular emotions is to be found in popular humorists.  Shortly after these days Artemus Ward, the author who almost vied with Shakespeare in Lincoln’s affections, relates how the confiscation of his show in the South led him to have an interview with Jefferson Davis.  “Even now,” said Davis, in this pleasant fiction, “we have many frens in the North.”  “J.  Davis,” is the reply, “there’s your grate mistaik.  Many of us was your sincere frends, and thought certin parties amung us was fussin’ about you and meddlin’ with your consarns intirely too much.  But, J. Davis, the minit you fire a gun at the piece of dry goods called the Star-Spangled Banner, the North gits up and rises en massy, in defence of that banner.  Not agin you as individooals—­not agin the South even—­but to save the flag.  We should indeed be weak in the knees, unsound in the heart, milk-white in the liver, and soft in the hed, if we stood quietly by and saw this glorus Govyment smashed to pieces, either by a furrin or a intestine foe.  The gentle-harted mother hates to take her naughty child across her knee, but she knows it is her dooty to do it.  So we shall hate to whip the naughty South, but we must do it if you don’t make back tracks at onct, and we shall wallup you out of your boots!” In the days which followed, when this prompt chastisement could not be effected and it seemed indeed as if the South would do most of the whipping, the discordant elements which mingled in this unanimity soon showed themselves.  The minority that opposed the war was for a time silent and insignificant, but among the supporters of the war there were those who loved the Union and the Constitution and who, partly for this very reason, had hitherto cultivated the sympathies of the South.  These—­adherents mainly of the Democratic party—­would desire