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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 682 0 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. 358 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 258 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 208 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. 204 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 182 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 104 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 102 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 86 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 72 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e Union. Since the formation of the government, composed of the original thirteen States, twenty new States have been added to the Union, making now the number of thirty-three. Of the number so added, eleven have been free States and nine slave States. For many years the policy was to admit States pari passu, so as to preserve the equilibrium in the Senate between the North and the South. In carrying out this policy, Vermont and Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, Indiana and Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama. Maine and Missouri, Arkansas and Michigan, Florida and Iowa, came in together, or near the same time. When the State of Missouri was admitted, the State of Maine was cut off from the then State of Massachusetts, for the purpose of preserving the equilibrium between the North and South, in the Senate. A Northern State was divided, with a view of keeping up the equipoise, and that division gave an additional free State to the Union. That equipoise is now destroyed, and we stan
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A hanging in Illinois. (search)
A hanging in Illinois. --On Friday afternoon last a German named Henry Alters was hung in Waterloo, Ill., in the presence of several thousands of persons. An enclosure had been erected for the purpose of hanging him privately, in accordance with the law, but the crowd quickly tore it down and refused to allow it to be rebuilt. There were a number of side fights and knock downs, but no one was seriously injured. The execution was postponed until the last moment, under the belief that his sentence would be commuted. Alters was a farmer, as was also the man he killed. The hogs of the latter got into the enclosure of the other, and Alters "dogged" them. The owner remonstrated, whereupon the wife of Alters ordered her husband to shoot him, threatening that if he did not, she would leave him. Alters repaired to his house, got a gun and fired a load of buckshot in his back, killing him instantly.
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A hanging in Illinois. (search)
The Kansas Sufferers. Atchison, K. T., Jan. 6. --Rev. Mr. Manen, agent of the Methodist Church, reports having received up to the 1st of this month, principally from Illinois, supplies to the amount of 175,037 pounds, which have been distributed through the ministers and stewards of that church to the destitute throughout the Territory. Considerable money has been received also, which has been expended in the purchase of supplies here and the payment of freights. The Union, of this city, publishes a statement that there is great suffering among the Pottawattamie Indians, and that two of the tribe have already died of starvation. They have a fine reservation and depend principally upon their crops for subsistence, which totally failed the past season.