Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Canada” in chapter 1.30, page 413 of Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government:
...ing general, Dix, telling what horrible designs, there was reason to believe, the agents of the Confederate States in Canada had prepared to be executed on election day, by an invasion of voters from Canada to colonize different points.
Therefore, to avert these dreadful dangers and arrest the guilty parties, it was necessary that provost marshals, sustained by a military force, should be
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