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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 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. 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ne, two or three years, and perhaps we will be relieved. Certainly we would be relieved -- of our slave property. If the Union was to be dissevered, those who had broken the covenant should leave it — he would not; he would fight first. If we stay here, the question will be shall we submit to the oppressor with whom we are confederated now? He would say to those who would commit us to war social, war civil, and war servile, that they should not commit him without a fight. He implored Virginians not to wrangle among themselves. A submission to the oppressors would drive away many of our best citizens, and the result would be cheap lands and a new population. Mr.Wise went on to allude to the mineral treasures of Virginia, and asked if it was the policy to get rid of the negroes, and abolitionize the State, by introducing Northern operatives to develop the mines. He then expressed his belief, that one object of the party now concentrating armies to coerce us, was to confederate w
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Bonaparte suit. (search)
Eaters and Submissionists. We wish that both these terms could be banished from the political nomenclature of the day. The disparaging idea conveyed in each is unjust, as applied to any portion of the Virginia people, unworthy to be used by Virginians, and only calculated to foster bitterness and bad blood. In Heaven's name, let not Virginians gratify their common enemy by exhibiting the spectacle of a house in arms against itself. Let us ever bear in mind that every man has a right to hisVirginians gratify their common enemy by exhibiting the spectacle of a house in arms against itself. Let us ever bear in mind that every man has a right to his own opinion in this free country, and if that opinion is expressed with more frankness and force than is agreeable to those who dissent from it, let them at least acknowledge that candor and honesty are virtues, and be content, in a courteous and charitable spirit, to make known their own views with equal emphasis and independence. We never could see, in the times of the old parties, why men should permit their personal relations to be affected by mere differences of opinion, and still more sh