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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 1,765 1 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. 1,301 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 947 3 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 914 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 776 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 495 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 485 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 456 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 410 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. 405 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], County meetings in Virginia. (search)
County meetings in Virginia. A meeting was held at King and Queen C. H., Va., on the 19th inst. The Committee on Resolutions made a long report, terminating with three resolutions. The report, which declared Lincoln's election not a sufficient cause for dissolution; was laid on the table; but the resolutions were unanimously adopted. They recommend first, that the Governor call the Legislature together immediately; second, that Virginia invite a conference of the Southern States; and thature early in December. In Goochland co., on the 19th, a public meeting adopted a resolution suggesting to Gov. Letcher to call the Legislature together on the 1st of December. Other resolutions also adopted, declare that "the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency is an open and official avowal by a popular majority of the North and of the nation that the past aggressions of Black Republicanism are right; and that aggressions against our rights are to be persisted in with great aggra
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Conservatism in Alabama. (search)
Conservatism in Alabama. The Mobile Register publishes a letter from "a large slaveholder" of Alabama, opposing dissolution on account of Lincoln's election. The letter contains the following views, so unusual to the latitude in which they are uttered: I am surprised to see that men of the law can conscientiously advocate secession as a constitutional measure. This is equal to saying a man has a right to kill himself. The Constitution has not provided for its own destruction. It was formed by the people of the States in Convention, not by the States as governments, and when formed, it was referred back to the same people in Convention for ratification, and they ratified it. And these United States became one government, with as much power as the people saw fit to give it; and, all that is set down in the Constitution is the supreme law of the land; and secession or forcible opposition to it is treason. Nullification is not so bad. That simply refers to a law, and may b