FEBRUARY 4, 1861:
The
Montgomery Convention convenes in Montgomery, Alabama, to form a central
government that will include the seceded States.
From the beginning, signs of
dysfunction plague the Convention, though they are not recognized as such at
the time.
The delegates are badly split, and the hardcore secessionist bloc
(“The Fire-Eaters”), having carried the South out of the Union on a tide of
rhetoric, are rendered politically impotent by a moderate backlash.
There are
discussions about rejoining the Union; several delegates vote to name the new
nation, “The United States of America”; the national flag is referred to as the
“Stars and Bars”; and the Fourth of July and Washington’s Birthday are declared
the national holidays of the new southern confederacy.
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