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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Naval ships. (search)
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 34 : (search)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth : Senatorial career. (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxx. (search)
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And now, as I proceed to show the way in which this Territory was overrun and finally subjugated to Slavery, I desire to remove, in advance, all question with regard to the authority on which I rely.
The evidence is secondary, but it is the best which, in the nature of the case, can be had; and it is not less clear, direct, and peremptory than any by which we are assured of the campaigns in the Crimea or the fall of Sebastopol.
In its manifold mass, I confidently assert that it is such a body of evidence as the human mind is not able to resist.
It is found in the concurring reports of the public press, in the letters of correspondents, in the testimony of travellers, and in the unaffected story to which I have listened from leading citizens, who, during this winter, have come flocking here from that distant Territory.
It breaks forth in the irrepressible outcry, reaching us from Kansas, whose truthful tones leave no ground of mistake.
It addresses us in formal complaint
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2 : the Worcester period (search)
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)