Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Lincoln” in chapter 30 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
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For example, the ex-Rev. C. Chauncey Burr, of New Jersey, thus set forth his sympathy with the insurgents:
We had no right to burn their wheat-fields, steal their pianos, Spoons, or jewelry.
Mr. Lincoln had stolen a good many thousand negroes; but for every negro he had thus stolen he had stolen 10,000 spoons.
It had been said that, if the South would lay down their arms, they would be received ba...
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