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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 12 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 II. 12 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 11 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 9 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 8 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
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adoption of this amendment, to follow it up by another. He then argued to show why it should be adopted, after which it was rejected. Mr. Goode, of Mecklenburg, moved to amend Mr. Scott's amendment by striking out the words "Confederated States" and inserting "Southern States." He said he offered this amendment merely to get an opportunity to reply to the shots thrown by the gentleman from Augusta, (Mr. Baldwin,) into the secession ranks. He thought if he had remembered the couplet of Burns, "O wad some pow'r the giftie give us, To see oursel's as others see us," the charge of inconsistency would never have come from him. Mr. Goode went on to criticize the purposes of the majority in this Con vention not to allow the people to elect the delegates to the Border Conference. After speaking the allotted time, he asked leave to withdraw his amendment. Mr. Blakey objected, and did so for the purpose of getting an opportunity to finish his own argument, which had