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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 416 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 114 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. 80 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 46 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 38 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 38 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 28 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Repeal of the Northern Liberty Bills. (search)
Repeal of the Northern Liberty Bills. The conservative portion of the Republican party in Massachusetts and Vermont are making movements towards the repeal of the unconstitutional "liberty bills" which have been passed by those States. In the Vermont Legislature a bill for the repeal of the law of that State has been introduced, and the Boston Post has no doubt it will be followed by a similar movement in the Legislature of every State whose statute book is disgraced by a similar law. In connection with this subject, we quote the following paragraph from the Salem (Mass.) Advocate: "The conservative Republicans of Massachusetts are now beginning to feel the effects of the teachings of the fanatical portion of their leaders, and as an evidence that they are not prepared to follow them longer, we are glad to learn that a petition is now in circulation in Boston, numerously signed by many of the leading Republicans of that city, calling for a repeal of the odious 'Perso
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
tates their bad example she is to be visited with the pains and penalties of treason, and that the South itself, as intimated by the Republican, is to perform that duty, we imagine they are calculating without their host. The subjoined table shows the penalties imposed in the several Northern disunion States on those officers or citizens who may aid in preserving the Constitution in fact by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law, viz: States.Imprisonment.Fine. Maine5 years.$1.000 Vermont15 years.2.000 Massachusetts5 years.5.000 Connecticut5 years.5.000 Pennsylvania3 months.1.000 Indiana14 years.5.000 Michigan10 years.1.000 Wisconsin2 years.1.000 Iowa5 years.1.000 It will be seen from the above that the Northern States are nearly all in a position of practical disunion; that is, they have refused to sustain the Constitution which their fathers adopted. Is the Federal Government going to put down nullification there, and will the North stand with drawn sword