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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 38 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 I. 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 9 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 5 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 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. 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1860., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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e looked upon as an indirect attempt at emancipation. He was willing to meet the question of emancipation openly when the time comes, and if he believed the Union could not be preserved without it, he would support the President in emancipation. The only practical way to tax the larger portion of the South was to tax cotton. On the suggestion of several Senators, M Sumner modified his amendment, so as to be in the language of the amendment offered by the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Simmons)--"That an annual tax of five dollars shall be paid by every person or persons, corporation or society, for and on account of every other person, between the ages of ten and sixty-five years, whose service or labor for a term of years or life is claimed to be owned by such first-mentioned person or persons, corporation or society, whether in a judiciary capacity or otherwise under the laws and customs of any State; and said annual tax, shall be levied on and collected of such person or pe