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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 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e old "fossils" of the Whig and Democratic parties propose to hang on to abolition North America, and profess so much attachment to the Union, I would say to them, "be not deceived," for there can never be any real Union between them and the North. When the people are told that the seceded States will ultimately return to the embrace of our loving abolition brethren, "be not deceived"--they will never do it. When the Black Republicans cajole you, and flatter you, and use honeyed phrases, and stuff you with sugar plum arguments, and show a willingness to kiss your big toe, "be not deceived"--they are only doing what they have been doing for a quarter of a century — adroitly, and stealthily, and surely, winding you up in their meshes, as ever that wicked spider seduced the unsuspecting fly. "Be not deceived," Virginians — you are as yet not entirely powerless; but the time is at hand when you will be, if you do not resist manfully the tide of abolition encroachments. Virginiu
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 71 (search)
at considerable length the arguments of the Southern Commissioners, for whom he expressed the highest personal respect. He cited statistics to show that King Cotton had a rival in colonies with which Great Britain had made treaties, and to show that the argument contemplating her fostering care was fallacious. He then alluded to the tobacco and other great interests of Virginia, which ought not to be made subject to King Cotton; and the consideration of their protection would not permit Virginians to become reconciled to the introduction of Yankees in place of the negroes, who would, as had been told us, all be required to cultivate the cotton of the South. To obviate all the difficulties, he proposed that there should be a confederation of all the border slave States of the South. It was too late for consultation with the North. He was opposed to precipitate action.--When they got into this consultation and formed a Constitution — which they had a right to do as well as