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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,057 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 106 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 70 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 67 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 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. 58 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
my to protect the rights of Virginia. He had heard nothing yet to satisfy him that it was to the interest of Virginia to go out of the Union, He was pleased that the gentleman from Bedford (Mr. Goggin) had read from the Farewell Address of George Washington, to point out the constitutional remedy for existing evils. He would, with the leave of the Convention, read another extract from his parting advice. The speaker then read that portion which counsels a cordial, habitual, immovable alied to some of the positions advanced by the last speaker. He held the Black Republicans responsible for the John Brown raid, and for all the other evils that had befallen the country. He also read an extract from the Farewell Address of George Washington, to show that he looked upon the Government at that time as an experiment, the impracticability of which had not then been demonstrated by experience.--He hoped that gentlemen, when they preached Washington here, would at the same time reme