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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 I. 114 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 98 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 30 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 28 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), The Southern declaration of Independence. (search)
our mails at an expense of some millions of dollars, in excess of receipts, in the Post-Office Department. They have many times refused to give audience in some parts of the country, and sometimes maltreated abolition lecturers. They have on several occasions furnished men and money to fight the battles of the country. They have acquiesced in the purchase, by the General Government, of Louisiana and Florida for our benefit. They sanctioned the annexation of Texas, by electing James K. Polk on that issue, thereby adding extensively to our domains. They have accorded to us the right to hang John Brown and his abettors, when he frightened us almost out of our senses, by his raid upon our cherished and much-admired institution in the Old Dominion. They have never insisted upon Congress passing laws for the abolition of slavery in the States, but they have prevented us from extending it into all the territories; denying that the Constitution guarantees to us the right to