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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,286 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 0 Browse Search
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. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 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) 272 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a Proclamation. (search)
Gold and Bank notes. --The buying rate for gold is $.90; selling $2.20@2.25 premium — transactions small. The business in Bank notes continues active, at a further improvement for Virginia and North Carolina, for which the brokers offer 97½ percent., for South Carolina and Georgia they offer 30. The selling rate of all kinds is 35. Stocks and Bonds have undergone no change. From recent sales, we quote Confederate bonds (100 ) at 100 and int., with large demand; Va. registered 108, flat; North Carolina since, old, eights 120 and int; Va and Tenn. Railroad 1st mort. bonds 120 and int; do do. 2d mort 10½ and int; City of Petersburg bonds 125 and int; Bank of Rockingham stock 89; Richmond Fire Association do. 3d; Va. Fire and Marine Ins. Co. 40; Merchants' Ins. do. 83, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad 104; Richmond and Danville Wheat--The receipts for sale are light, the larger portion being taken for Government contracts. We continue to quote at $3.90@4 for prim
of doubt whether it would not have been able to recover its former strength, had the slaveholding States acqui in the election and avoided civil war. But what ground is there to fear such a renewal of strength after having been defeated in arms against the Union? Weat is operation of the war? We have entered Virginia and already five thousand slaves emancipated simply by the appearance of our forces, upon the hands of the Federal Government there. We have landed on the coast of South Carolina, and already nine thousand similarly emancipated slaves hang upon our camp. Although the war has not been waged against slavery yet the army acts immediately as an emancipating crusade. To proclaim the crusade is unnecessary, and it would even he inexpedient, because it would deprive us of the need of an legitimate support of the friends of the Union who are not opposed to slavery, but who prefer Union without slavery to Disunion with slavery. Does France or does Great Britain
ounded as we are by perils on every hand — pressed by an Herculean foe — he was willing to waive objections and yield it cheerful acquiescence. One of the most difficult problems of popular government is to so organize it that the minority shall possess an efficient check on the majority to restrain and prevent usurpation. The old Constitution contains no provisions adequate for such a purpose. The Southern States have been struggling against the encroachments of the North for years. South Carolina attempted to arrest this spirit in 1832; but she soon saw that it would lead to war. The tide of fanaticism rolled en, until we resolved to withdraw from the Union as a protection against it — There are but two modes of resistance now, if we desired to resist the Conscript law — in which all should be willing to acquiesce--one is nullification in the Government, which is folly, or secession from it, which is disintegration. He would have Georgia declare her solemn, dignified protest, t