SPEAKING OF newspapers.com...

[Montauk6]

I'm just having a grand ol' time browsing through "The Confederate States," a Tuskegee newspaper that clearly published in during the Secession wave. I don't know how to properly share articles, so I'll just quote. It's fascinating.

This is from pg. 2 of the 4/23/1861 edition (this is, I guess, following Virginia joining; and, mind you, this is from skimming not doing a keyword search), in an article "The Old Dominion" (emphasis added):

The secession of Virginia will bring to us the remaining border States. Our number of States will soon be doubly increased.--Interest as well as sympathy will unite the Southern States under one government.--The question for the border States to determine is, whether they will choose equality and independence, under a Southern Confederacy; or inequality and degradation under an abolition government

Same page, "From the Montgomery Confederation, 19th. Secession of Virginia"

We could not believe that she would remain as a part of a government, or as an ally to a man whose chief object is to subject the Seceded States and destroy the institution of slavery."

I just find it hilariously vindicating that a random perusal that, for a movement that was supposedly about anything and everything other than slavery, the journalism of the time begs to differ.

I also love the attitude that SLAVEOWNERS were the real victims of oppression; no one can write comedy that good.

Best I can do for a URL reference:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76121307/reference-to-slavery-in-virginia-secessi/