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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 8: attitude of the Border Slave-labor States, and of the Free-labor States. (search)
day, said Mr. Benton, who was present, revealed to the public mind the fact of an actual design tending to dissolve the Union. See Benton's Thirty Years View, i. 148. thirty years before:--Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. Little was done at that time, excepting the appointment of delegates to the Peace Congress; but throughout the war, Governor Yates and the people of Illinois performed a glorious part. Northward of Illinois, Wisconsin was spread out, between Lakes Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi River, with a population of nearly eight hundred thousand. Its voters were Republicans by full twenty thousand majority. Its Governor, Alexander W. Randall, was thoroughly loyal. In his message to the Legislature, which convened at Madison on the 10th of January, 1861. he spoke of the doctrine of State Supremacy as a fallacy, and said:--The signs of the times indicate, in my opinion, that there may arise a contingency in the condition of the Government, Alexander W