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... Secession is a process wholly unknown to the constitution and the laws . It must inevitably lead to aggression , and that aggression to civil war . " 1 From these reactions to the Trumbull - Lincoln remarks it is apparent that Lincoln ...
... Secession is a process wholly unknown to the constitution and the laws . It must inevitably lead to aggression , and that aggression to civil war . " 1 From these reactions to the Trumbull - Lincoln remarks it is apparent that Lincoln ...
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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 ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
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