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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 207 5 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 90 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 56 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 34 2 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. 32 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 28 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 22 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 II. 21 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], "the law and the Testimony." (search)
may be exerted with an infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State." --Hamilton, page 106, Federalist "In a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters ofmeasures against the States, but no such powers were authorized. Not a single member of the Convention advocated force. Hamilton, the strong government man, rejected and denounced resorting to force. Mr. Madison said "the more he reflected on the ues formed on the supposed practicability of using force against the States would prove visionary and fallacious." Hamilton again said: "Force, by which may be understood a coercion of laws or a coercion arms, it amounts to a war between the pa These are some of the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution, and you have before you the views of Hamilton and Madison, who helped to frame it, as to the rights of the States, and the powers of the Federal Government as to coer
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The worthy daughter of a Hero. (search)
The right of secession — the power of coercion in the Federal Government. We invoke earnestly the attention of our readers to a communication on these subjects which we transfer to our columns from the Baltimore Sun. Let them read carefully the irresistible authorities there collected upon the subject. Let them see how all parties, in the formation of the Constitution, including Alexander Hamilton, arrayed themselves against those despotic and monstrous doctrines and pretensions now put forth by the Republicans.