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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 295 1 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. 229 1 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 164 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 120 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 78 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 66 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 60 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 54 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) 51 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 40 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Touching scene in a Court-room. (search)
out of education, religion and polities of the Northern people. For forty years it has been growing, until it has culminated in the triumph of a purely sectional party, on the merit of hostility to the South, and the opinion that Southern civilization is barbarism. At the beginning of the crusade, the Fathers of the Republic were terrified at its threatening aspect. Mr. Jefferson said it struck him like the fire-bell at night, and filled his mind with dread for the fate of his country. Mr. Clay strained all the powers of his eloquence, finally with success, to save his country from it for the time. Yet the tide swept on, and, after repeated convulsions, the great Kentucky, or, rather, American orator, was again compelled to throw himself into the breach eleven years ago, and his last signal achievement was again to preserve his country from the gulf of dissolution. He declared then that it could not survive this continued agitation, and he indulged the delusive hope that it was
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Oil Fever. (search)
Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. In acknowledging a present of a bronze medal of Henry Clay, whHenry Clay, which some one lately sent to the Black Republican President elect, Mr. Lincoln speaks of the "extremed a leader." His teacher! His leader! Henry Clay the teacher of Mr. Lincoln! What lesson of HHenry Clay has he learned? Wherein does he follow his leader's footsteps? If we were called upo policy, we could not find such antipodes as Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. The solitary polar sea grim visaged, billions, dyspeptic Puritan, and Clay, the bright, joyous, generous, candid, noble ges the man who has the effrontery to speak of Henry Clay as his teacher and his leader! If there was anything in the world by which Henry Clay was peculiarly and pre-eminently distinguished, it was hir and amazement, the whole country looked to Henry Clay as its Pacificator, and so, on three differeo declare himself a follower and disciple of Henry Clay! If so, he is such a follower as Benedict Ar