Southern excitement became intense, amounted almost to panic.
The activity of the anti-slavery press, the stream of anti-slavery publications, which had, indeed, increased with singular rapidity, was exaggerated by the Southern imagination, struck it with a sort of terror.

There were meetings held in many parts of the South, tremendous scenes enacted there.

In Charleston, South Carolina, the post-office was broken open by an aristocratic mob, under the lead of the famous Robert Y.Hayne, and a bonfire made of the Abolition mail-matter which it contained.

As this Southern excitement advanced, a passionate fear for the stability of the Union arose in the heart of the North.

Abolition and the Abolitionists had produced these sectional disturbances.
Abolition and the Abolitionists were, therefore, enemies of the "glorious Union." Northern excitement kept pace with Southern excitement until, in the summer of 1835, a reign of terror was widely established over both sections.