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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 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. 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
as infamous beyond the power of language to express. Such a man would not hesitate to murder his own mother, if by so doing he could secure the object of his contemptible ambition. His motive, in the present instance, is as transparent as glass.--He will meet his reward. Virginia's long silence has provoked the condemnation of both Northern and Southern men. A distinguished man, formerly a Senator from one of the Northern States, said to an acquaintance of mine, "We always knew that Virginians were sluggish and low-spirited. Your recent course shows that you can never be aroused until we come down and prick you with the bayonet. John Brown speared you into a momentary wakefulness. You soon sunk back into sleep. Sleep on now, and the first thing you know you'll be squeezed like an orange, until you are perfectly dry." Our members have been tardy in acquainting the people with the imminency of danger — the impossibility of peace. It gives me pleasure to state that the me
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Washington,29, October 1860 (search)
industriously sought to make Virginia the tool of their coercive designs. Brief, pointed, dignified, without menace and without fear, they are worthy of Virginia's calm power and courage. They will do good to the Southern cause. But why will Virginians shut their eyes to the obvious fact that the highest, strongest, most unequivocal Southern ground, is now the most conservative? Why the misstatement of historical facts in the third resolution? The British did hold the American forts for a t after peace was declared, but there was an express stipulation in the treaty that the forts should be relinquished. No such stipulation exists as between the Federal Government and South Carolina. But let us say no more about the matter. As Virginians, as Southern men, we shall soon be called upon to take our stand in behalf of our common rights and our common honor. We must be brothers now. Up to ten o'clock last night, the President, after declaring that Anderson had acted in violati