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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 37 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 32 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 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. 16 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 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) 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The issue described. (search)
8, a debate was had upon the propriety of agitating for the repeal of all the Federal statutes prohibiting the slave trade, it will be remembered that the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey advocated the affirmative of that proposition, and a vowed a willingness to make a casus fœderls of the refusal of Congress to comply with such a demand. In oing to a renewal of the slave trade, proposed that the election of a "Republican" President should be made the occasion of withdrawing from the Union. What Mr. Yancey thought of such a proceeding, in its legal and moral relations, was frankly stated at the time, and as in doing so he has defined the character of the present r which the impartial narrator will be compelled to employ in portraying this revolution, as conceived by its very authors. It was in reply to Mr. Hilliard that Mr. Yancey held the following language: "I say, with all deference to my colleague, (Mr. Hilliard,) that no more inferior issue could be tendered to the South, upon