The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 1Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 664 pages |
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... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21. cured for himself , among the expanding Republican party , an importance which obtained for him the nomination for the Presidency , and finally his elevation to that high office . How far his political ...
... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21. cured for himself , among the expanding Republican party , an importance which obtained for him the nomination for the Presidency , and finally his elevation to that high office . How far his political ...
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... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21 CHAPTER III . ·. answer , as I have , that I am pledged to nothing about it . It is a subject to which I have not given that mature consideration that would make me feel authorized to state a position so ...
... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21 CHAPTER III . ·. answer , as I have , that I am pledged to nothing about it . It is a subject to which I have not given that mature consideration that would make me feel authorized to state a position so ...
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... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21 CHAPTER III . · The Election of Lincoln a signal and pretext of Insurrection . The news hailed with joy in South Carolina . - Secession Meetings . Sympathy of Slave States . - Offer of Aid from Virginia ...
... EFFECT OF LINCOLN'S ELECTION . 21 CHAPTER III . · The Election of Lincoln a signal and pretext of Insurrection . The news hailed with joy in South Carolina . - Secession Meetings . Sympathy of Slave States . - Offer of Aid from Virginia ...
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... a single State , not to speak of other States who may place themselves in a similar attitude . Con- gress gress alone has power to decide whether Staatliche Dibliothek koguneburg 1 1 EFFECT OF WAR ON THE UNION . been.
... a single State , not to speak of other States who may place themselves in a similar attitude . Con- gress gress alone has power to decide whether Staatliche Dibliothek koguneburg 1 1 EFFECT OF WAR ON THE UNION . been.
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... EFFECT OF WAR ON THE UNION . been consecrated by the blood of our fathers , by. one of these powers . So far from this power having been delegated to Con- gress , it was expressly refused by the Convention which framed the Consti- tution ...
... EFFECT OF WAR ON THE UNION . been consecrated by the blood of our fathers , by. one of these powers . So far from this power having been delegated to Con- gress , it was expressly refused by the Convention which framed the Consti- tution ...
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