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slavery, as our enemies have tried so hard to make the world believe was the case.
That of 1900 was directed—
(1) To establish the right of secession (the real question at issue in the war) by Northern testimony alone, and
(2) To establish the fact that the North was the aggressor in bringing on the war, and by the same kind of testimony.
These two reports have been published, the first for two years, and the second for one year, and as far as we know, no fact contended for in either has been attempted to be controverted.
We feel justified, therefore, in claiming that these facts have been established.
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Table of Contents:
Memoir of
Jane
Claudia
Johnson
.
A paper read by
Charles
M.
Blackford
, of the
Lynchburg Bar
, before the
Tenth
annual meeting of the
Virginia State Bar Association
, held at old
Point Comfort, Va.
,
July
17
-
19
,
1900
.
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