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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 II. 13 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 6 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 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) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 5 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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ity forever. We would prosecute the war to a bad end if we only succeeded in conquering the States by the overthrow of the Constitution. Unless we can save the Constitution with the Union, we had better let both go. All the evils the rebels are now enduring are the legitimate fruits of a violation of the Constitution. The Constitution says: "No bill of attainder shall be passed." But it seems to be admitted that this bill is practically a bill of attainder. The Senator from Maine (Mr. Morrill) seems to place the authority of Congress to pass this bill on the "war power;" but all the powers Congress possesses are granted by the Constitution, and they were the same yesterday as they are to day, and will remain so forever. The unlimited power of Congress, as advocated by the Senator from Maine, is only a foundation for despotism. The functions of Congress are civil and legislative, and it cannot control unlimited war power. He contended that the supreme Court had settled this