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 Expecially 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 1 |
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... further back , and devotes more attention to the remoter , more recondite causes of our civil strife , than any rival . At all events , I have aimed to give a full and fair , though necessarily condensed , view of all that impelled to ...
... further back , and devotes more attention to the remoter , more recondite causes of our civil strife , than any rival . At all events , I have aimed to give a full and fair , though necessarily condensed , view of all that impelled to ...
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... further serviceable to me , in putting me on my guard against those monstrous exaggerations of the numbers opposed to them with which weak , incompetent , and worsted commanders habitually excuse , or seek to cover up , their failures ...
... further serviceable to me , in putting me on my guard against those monstrous exaggerations of the numbers opposed to them with which weak , incompetent , and worsted commanders habitually excuse , or seek to cover up , their failures ...
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... further understood and declared , that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered , that , if Con- gress shall hereafter find it expedient , they shall have authority to form one or two States in that ...
... further understood and declared , that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered , that , if Con- gress shall hereafter find it expedient , they shall have authority to form one or two States in that ...
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... further importation of Slaves ; in fact , several , if not all , of these States , including Virginia and Mary- land , had already expressly forbid den it . But the ultimatum presented . by the still slave - hungry States of the extreme ...
... further importation of Slaves ; in fact , several , if not all , of these States , including Virginia and Mary- land , had already expressly forbid den it . But the ultimatum presented . by the still slave - hungry States of the extreme ...
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... further act , to the same effect , but more sweeping in its provisions and severe in its penalties . On the 2d of March , 1807 - twenty - three days before the passage of the British act - Congress passed one which than ships , or ...
... further act , to the same effect , but more sweeping in its provisions and severe in its penalties . On the 2d of March , 1807 - twenty - three days before the passage of the British act - Congress passed one which than ships , or ...
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