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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 6 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 2 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 3 1 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. 3 1 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 3 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rs of war before this country under the policy of the present Administration. It appeared from the President's message that the obstacles to peace were the terms which he offered — refusing to treat with rebels. It should be remembered that the British lost their American colonies because George III. refused to treat with rebels in arms against him. In the House of Representatives, the bill providing governments for States "subverted or overthrown by the rebellion" being up,-- Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, opposed the bill at length. It was not founded on any principle commonly called the war power of the Government. The very first section provides for the appointment of officers, who will be multiplied to thousands, to lord it over the miserable, poverty-stricken, wretched citizens of the rebellious States. It would afford an asylum for broken-down politicians, whose presence would darken the heavens like the locusts of Egypt. In addition to these people being the obj