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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 970 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 126 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. 126 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 114 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 100 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 94 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 88 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 86 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 76 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) 74 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways.--one thousand dollars reward. (search)
t; and that wherever it is the least, crime is most rare. Statistics of crime in England and Wales prove that, whilst education has been more universally disseminated than ever before, the increase of crime has been more rapid than that of the population; and that in Scotland, where education is almost universal, it is more rapid than in England. And as to the United States, the Baron Tocqueville, the most enlightened and philosophic traveler in that republic, long ago observed, "In Connecticut, where there is far more instruction than in New York, crime increases with a terrible rapidity; and if one cannot accuse knowledge as the cause of this, one is obliged to acknowledge it is no prevention." Hence we may dismiss our astonishment at the display of Yankee depravity in this war. The value of education, combined with virtuous training, no one but a madman would deny. Separated from it, as in the Northern States, it is only an instrument of vast force, capable of being exe