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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 682 0 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. 358 0 Browse Search
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 258 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 208 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. 204 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 182 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 104 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 102 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 86 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 72 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hanging Seceders. (search)
Hanging Seceders. General Pope, of Illinois, threatens the halter, without judge or jury, to all Secessionists. This is the true spirit and temper of his masters. Never, since the first French Rebellion, was there such a barbarous and bloody party. Well does General Polk say, in a "General Order," "the invasion comes, bringing with it a contempt for constitutional liberty, and the withering influence of the infidelity of New England and Germany combined." None but men who acknowledge no restraints of religious faith or principle could hold up wholesale murder, rapine and pillage, as the true mode of conducting such a warfare as the present. Nothing but fear can prevent them from executing their threats, and happily we have abundant means of retaliation. Possibly, in addition to treason, some means may be found of reaching the men high in place in Washington, on whose guilty heads rests the responsibility of this outrageous war and all its crimes.
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Where is the responsibility. (search)
, except one State, chose first to demand solemn constitutional guarantees for prosecution against the abuse of the tremendous power and patronage and influence of the Federal Government for the purpose of securing the great end of the sectional conflict, before resorting to secession or revolution at all? Did he not know — how could he be ignorant — that, at the last session of Congress, every substantive proposition for adjustment and compromise, except that offered by the gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. Kellong,) --and we all know how that was received — came from the South? Stop a moment, and let us see. The Committee of Thirty-three was moved for in this House by a gentleman from Virginia, the second day of the session, and received the vote of every Southern Representative present, except only the members from South Carolina, who declined to vote. In the Senate, the Committee of Thirteen was moved for by a Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Powell,) and received the silent acquies<