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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., Xxxi. The forces in conflict. (search)
treason to the Union--never to restrain or prevent it. XIII. The Southern leaders entered upon their great struggle with the Union under the impression — which, with the more sanguine, amounted to undoubting confidence — that they were to be largely aided by cooperation and diversion on the part of their Northern friends and allies. They did not, for a moment, suppose that the Free States were to be, even in appearance, a unit against their efforts. The New Orleans Picayune of February 21st, 1861, had a letter from its New York correspondent Antelope, dated the 13th, which, with reference to Mr. Lincoln's speech, two days earlier, at Indianapolis, said: Lincoln even goes so far as to intimate that hostile armies will march across the seceded States to carry out the darling project of recapture, and the enforcement of the laws, but he surely could not have counted the dreadful and sickening result when such a course wandered through his hot and frenzied brain. March hostil