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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 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. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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"Thirty-six Thirty." --The reader who is curious to know exactly where runs this oft mentioned line, will get a clear idea of it by taking the map and tracing it as follows: It commences at the point on the Atlantic coast where the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina commences; passes along the line between Tennessee and Kentucky; along the line between the States of Missouri and Arkansas, thence through the Territory of the Cherokee nation, through New Mexico, striking the eastern boundary of the State of California, a short distance south of the middle, striking the Pacific a short distance south of Monterey bay. On the south of that line there are about 300,000 square miles, including Indian reservations, while on the north there are about 1,300,000 square miles. Of the 300,000 square miles south of 36,30 there is not the slightest probability that there could be carved out more than one slave State. All New Mexico, comprising about 210,000 square miles,
But she is only one-sixth in the list of seceding States.--She does not stand for them all, nor all for her, as respects her local policy. They all, however, stand toward her as does Virginia: i. e., they will resist coercion of any Southern State by the Federal Government. Should no settlement of our national troubles be effected by the 4th of March, and the South be not united, the seceding States will in all human probability be attacked, and then, according to resolutions of all except Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, the whole Southern sisterhood of States will be involved in a general war. What are the chances of the settlement of our troubles? Almost hopeless. The Constitution provides that amendments to that instrument must be approved by three-fourths of the States. By the middle of February one-fourth of the States will be out of the Union. Yet the determination of Congress is not to recognize their secession. The Clerks of both Houses have been instructed not to s