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Chapter 51:- The Beginning of the End
I asked Obie to show me the revolver and he did. The three inch long, octagon barrel was crisp and darkly blued. The cylinder held five bullets and was engraved with a stage coach scene. It fit nicely in the pocket and the hand. I commented to Obie that it looked like a piece of fine quality workmanship. He said, “Josiah, when your life is on the line, it pays to have the best.”
Deciding that stimulating and strengthening my mind, as well as my body, was important, I subscribed to Harper’s Weekly to get a better scope of the nation and the world. By 1860, I was reading about Southern secession from the Union and forts being turned over to individual states as appeasement. There were rumblings of war in both the Bulletin and the Inquirer.
Mother wrote that Father said in his opinion, no one in the family should join the coming fight. This was a matter of States Rights as stated in the Constitution and whether the government could take a man’s private property from him.
As a family, the Rorhers did not own slaves nor condone the practice of slavery in any form, but if the Federal Government could take away slaves, what would they take next? Would they take a man’s house, his horse, his guns, his right to travel? Where would this end? We would stay out of this unjust war, but defend our mountain home if we must.
I asked Obie to show me the revolver and he did. The three inch long, octagon barrel was crisp and darkly blued. The cylinder held five bullets and was engraved with a stage coach scene. It fit nicely in the pocket and the hand. I commented to Obie that it looked like a piece of fine quality workmanship. He said, “Josiah, when your life is on the line, it pays to have the best.”
Deciding that stimulating and strengthening my mind, as well as my body, was important, I subscribed to Harper’s Weekly to get a better scope of the nation and the world. By 1860, I was reading about Southern secession from the Union and forts being turned over to individual states as appeasement. There were rumblings of war in both the Bulletin and the Inquirer.
Mother wrote that Father said in his opinion, no one in the family should join the coming fight. This was a matter of States Rights as stated in the Constitution and whether the government could take a man’s private property from him.
As a family, the Rorhers did not own slaves nor condone the practice of slavery in any form, but if the Federal Government could take away slaves, what would they take next? Would they take a man’s house, his horse, his guns, his right to travel? Where would this end? We would stay out of this unjust war, but defend our mountain home if we must.
