from the Columbia Patriot, February 15, 1894:
TROOPS LINE UP ALONG MASON-DIXON LINE AS CONFEDERATES REFUSE TO EXTRADITE BOOTH - The armies of both the United States and the Confederacy began digging in along the Pennsylvania/Maryland border after word came from Richmond that John Wilkes Booth Jr., the assasin of President Stevenson, would not be extradited to face trial in the U.S.
"Booth is a Confederate citizen and his dastardly crime was committed in the Confederacy, and therefore it is Confederate justice that he will face," said CS President William Northen, himself wounded in Booth's attack.
"The Confederate position is unacceptable," retorted President Arthur Sewall in a statement from the Executive Mansion here in Columbia. "Booth must be released to us so that justice may be meted out by the real victims of his crime - the citizens of the United States."
With both leaders seemingly not inclined to waver from their respective positions, and their armies preparing for battle, our thirty years of peace - uncomfortable peace, but peace nonetheless - may be coming to an abrupt end.
Confederate President William Northen