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From: "Diana Boothe" <>
Subject: [AR-CIVIL-WAR] Re: March 20, 1861 Van Buren Press,
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:13:35 -0500
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Hi Fran! :-)
We haven't seen any of your wonderful articles lately.......are you still
there?? I sure am looking forward to more!!

Diana



----- Original Message -----
From: "Fran Warren" <>
<>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: March 20, 1861 Van Buren Press,


> The following article was transcribed from the March 20, 1861 issue of the
> Van Buren Press in Crawford County, Arkansas:
>
> ARKANSAS TRUE TO THE UNION! ORDINANCE OF SECESSION VOTED DOWN! BY A VOTE
OF
> 39 TO 35 THE PEOPLE SATISFIED! 39 GUNS FIRED! THE STARS AND STRIPES RUN UP
> FROM THE PRESS OFFICE!!!
>
> The following private dispatch was received yesterday, from Messers.
Turner
> and Griffith, Delegates to the Convention at Little Rock, announcing the
> voting down of the Secession Ordinance, was received in this city today by
a
> general rejoicing, in a quiet way, of the Union loving men, (and women
too).
> On the reception of the Dispatch, a salute of THIRTY-NINE guns was fired
in
> honor of the thirty-nine patriots who stood firm, and unflinchingly met
the
> angry waves of secession and stopped its progress. And the American Flag,
> stars and stripes, were thrown to the breeze from the PRESS office in
honor
> of the event.
>
> We had intended to have given a full report of the proceedings of the
> Convention, but as the whole object of its assembling is embraced in this
> dispatch, we have concluded to omit for this week, the lengthy reports.
>
> Fran Alverson Warren

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