A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect |
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... secession would be crushed in the separatist strong- hold itself by an upsurge of Union sentiment had proved delu- sive . In one of the newspapers he regularly studied appeared dangerously significant evidence . " Submissionists in the ...
... secession would be crushed in the separatist strong- hold itself by an upsurge of Union sentiment had proved delu- sive . In one of the newspapers he regularly studied appeared dangerously significant evidence . " Submissionists in the ...
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... secession . But the legislature would act oppo- sitely . By December citizens of this variety were perceptibly losing heart , and the Union movement soon became a lost cause . But the victory of secession , in five of the seven states ...
... secession . But the legislature would act oppo- sitely . By December citizens of this variety were perceptibly losing heart , and the Union movement soon became a lost cause . But the victory of secession , in five of the seven states ...
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... secession on the President Elect appeared in press dispatches reporting the words of distinguished visitors . When Frank Blair of St. Louis arrived on the eleventh , he vigorously denounced " all propositions to compromise , con- cede ...
... secession on the President Elect appeared in press dispatches reporting the words of distinguished visitors . When Frank Blair of St. Louis arrived on the eleventh , he vigorously denounced " all propositions to compromise , con- cede ...
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NOVEMBER SIXTH | 3 |
A FABIAN FORTNIGHT | 7 |
SECESSION SALVOS | 41 |
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