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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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rn and Southern portion of our common country, and that they will frown upon, discourage, and by all proper means resist, their attempts to override, annul and evade any portion of the provisions of the Constitution and the laws. Resolved, That we brand all such persons as fanatical rebels, disloyal to the American flag, the Constitution, the Union and the laws, and we believe them unworthy of a country which cherishes and reveres the memory of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Webster and Clay, and they should not be allowed to hold insurrectionary meetings in our midst. Resolved, That we hereby tender and accord to our Southern brethren all their constitutional rights, both in the States and in the Territories. Resolved, That in memory of the past, we will use our best endeavors and all honorable means of securing happiness and prosperity for ourselves and our posterity, and firmly believing in the capabilities of man for self-government, we hope that the sunshine will s
ome now a lesson of duty to the South; for, if we submit to what he thought our manly instincts would rebel against, we are not the people he esteemed us to be. Henry Clay, as well as his great compeers of '37 and '50, was equally emphatic in his deprecation of the slavery agitation, as a lover of disunion. His most thrilling outm the agitation, if it was not brought to an end in 1850. It has gone on till 1861; and the six seceding Gulf States have but accepted the recourse indicated by Mr. Clay. The departed fathers of the country look down from their present exalted abodes upon these seceding States, doubtless with regret, but without one word of reproood festering in the bosoms of the sections, and the angry agitation now rife widening and still widening the present gaping chasm of popular alienation, then Washington, Jefferson and Clay were indifferent judges of human character, and the Southern people fitter material for vassalage and serfdom than they esteemed them to be.