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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,404 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 200 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 188 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 184 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. 174 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) 166 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 164 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 132 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 100 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 100 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], The traitor Dent. (search)
bsequent history? Do any two European nations hate each other better than the two sections of this late Union do at this present moment? Did England and France ever hate as Virginia and New York do just now and will continue to do (certainly if we are held by force?) Do Austria and Venetia hate any better? The retention of unwilling and hostile States may prove as injurious to the Northern section as to that which is subdued. It changes at once, as we have said, the whole character of the Government. It assimilates us to the pro-consular system of Rome. Lieutenants with armies must reside in the provinces, and lieutenants with the armies will begin to contend for the purple. Perhaps Mexico will afford an illustration. The question is simply this, can government be sustained on the principle of the consent of the governed? The Old World people said no. Austria said no. America has said yes, and Louis Napoleon has retained power in France by recognizing the idea in Italy.
The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
le to accumulate around our standards before decisive measures are taken. It is well that the Confederate Government should become a little familiar with the field and with the position of affairs before the war is opened in earnest. Delays are not dangerous in war when they are employed by the masters of strategy. We feel implicit confidence in the ability of the Government and its Generals. Educated at West Point to the profession of arms, schooled to active war in the campaigns of Mexico, familiarized with the manipulations of troops and with the mechanism of army organization by four years experience in the Department of War at Washington, President Davis, of all the men of the South, is probably the one most thoroughly qualified for the duties of Commander-in-Chief in the present contest. His high personal traits of character, his iron will, his indomitable spirit, his tried courage, his laborious habits of business, his mastery of details, his propensity to do thoroughly