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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 279 279 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 78 78 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 33 33 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 31 31 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 30 30 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 29 29 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 28 28 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 25 25 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 20 20 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 18 18 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the Union because one had been elevated to the Presidency, through our divisions, who was objectionable to them.--They had yet the Constitution to protect them. The Government had never yet brought us anything but good, and no act had been placed there upon the subject of slavery which the Southern States did not assent to. We were called upon to destroy a Government that protects us against the consequences of our own mistake. We had the right to increase the number of slave States since 1845, but had now only fifteen; and yet we wanted expansion! Slavery was governed by soil, by climate, by interests; and where those were adverse, it would not go. South Carolina spurned the causes which were alleged here for a dissolution of the Union. The present secession movement was initiated in South Carolina, where they never lost a slave. South Carolina tells you frankly it is because of the "irrepressible conflict" between free and slave labor. The doctrine of the right of a Stat
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reception of Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural. (search)
March 5.--Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural was received here yesterday, in three hours, from Washington. It is regarded as incongruous and contradictory relative to constitutional rights. The assertion that the ordinances of the seceded States are void, and their acts insurrectionary, coupled with the determination to hold, occupy and possess the Government property, and to collect the revenue, are received as an open declaration of war. The assertion that no blood will be shed, and no invasion made unless the South resists, is ridiculed. Dispatches to-day from Montgomery universally concede war to be inevitable. The Southern Congress was engaged in organizing a standing army of ten thousand men.--Eight thousand men can at once be placed on a movable war footing. The Picayune of to-day states that a precedent exists for the South to regard any attempt at coercion as a declaration of war by the act of Congress, in 1845, declaring in preamble that "war exists by the act of Mexico."