From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Resolutions from a mass meeting of the workingmen of Massachusetts calling on a peaceful resolution to the current crisis.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the citizens of Winnebago County, Illinois, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis warning Davis of a plot to destroy the levees on the Mississippi River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from an anonymous "Abolitionist" to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus warning of an alleged plot to overthrow the governments of Mississippi and Louisiana by Northern men, Irish, and free African Americans.