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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
on-planters, by protesting against the visitation of suspected slave-bearing vessels, carrying the American flag, by British cruisers. Every avenue through which truth might find its way to the popular understanding was quickly closed, and the people had no detecter of its counterfeits. Perhaps there never was a people, wrote a Southern Unionist, in the third year of the war, more bewitched, beguiled, and befooled than we were when we drifted into this rebellion. New York Daily Times, June 4, 1864. Commenting on these actions of the politicians, President Lincoln said:--At the beginning, they knew they would never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. They knew their people possessed as much moral sense, as much of devotion to law and order, and as much pride in, and reverence for, the history and Government of their common country, as any other civilized and patriotic people. They knew they would make no advancement direc