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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1,857 43 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. 250 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 242 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 138 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 129 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 126 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 116 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 116 6 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 114 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 89 3 Browse Search
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they should do so." At a meeting in Fairfax county, Va., last week, resolutions were adopted in favor of calling a Convention, and advocating the right of secession. In the further proceedings of the meeting we find the following: A. B. Williams, Esq., offered the following, which was adopted: Whereas, the Governor of the State of Ohio, in direct conflict with the 4th article of the Constitution of the United States, has failed and refused to deliver two escaped criminals, (Brown and Meriam,) charged with treason, felony and other high crimes at the raid at Harper's Ferry, and who were rightfully demanded of him by the Governor of Virginia; and whereas, the Legislature of Virginia, at its last session, for want of time and the lateness of Gov. Letcher's message, failed to take any action in the premises, it now becomes the imperative duty of the Legislature, at its approaching session, to take such prompt and decisive action in the case as the honor and dignity of th
office arrives, will be able to proceed to Washington without those four hundred thousand Wide Awakes at his back, who, it is said, are ready, if need be, to accompany him to the Capital. [from the London Chronicle, Nov. 20.] What will be the consequences of Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency of the United States? We may dismiss without much hesitation the exaggerations of Northern demagogues or Southern alarmists. A few fanatics at the North have expressed sympathy with John Brown, and speak flippantly of the servile war that would have ensued from even his temporary success. Others, more prominent men of the Republican party, speak vaguely of slavery being "doomed," and seem to anticipate that slaveholders will be coerced into surrender by the gradual closing in around them of free-soil States. These, however, are but the wicked or wanton dreams of men who know nothing of the South, and still less of the Constitution of the United States; who forget that there we