History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... War , a letter expressing apprehensions lest the South- ern people should seize some of the Federal forts in the South- ern States , and advising that they should be immediately gar- risoned by way of precaution . The Secretary of War ...
... War , a letter expressing apprehensions lest the South- ern people should seize some of the Federal forts in the South- ern States , and advising that they should be immediately gar- risoned by way of precaution . The Secretary of War ...
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... war on any State for the purpose of preventing it from seceding , and closed this portion of his Message by ... Secretary of the Treasury , and on the 14th Gen. Cass resigned as Secretary of State . The latter resigned because the Presi ...
... war on any State for the purpose of preventing it from seceding , and closed this portion of his Message by ... Secretary of the Treasury , and on the 14th Gen. Cass resigned as Secretary of State . The latter resigned because the Presi ...
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... war upon any State , it was his right and his duty to " use military force ... Secretary of the Interior , because the Star of the West had been sent on ... Secretary of the Treasury , resigned , and was succeeded by Gen. John A. Dix , of ...
... war upon any State , it was his right and his duty to " use military force ... Secretary of the Interior , because the Star of the West had been sent on ... Secretary of the Treasury , resigned , and was succeeded by Gen. John A. Dix , of ...
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... war upon the Southern States for their attempt to secure a redress of wrongs . The President's first act was to construct his Cabinet , which was done by the appointment of William H. Seward , of New York , Secretary ... Secretary of the ...
... war upon the Southern States for their attempt to secure a redress of wrongs . The President's first act was to construct his Cabinet , which was done by the appointment of William H. Seward , of New York , Secretary ... Secretary of the ...
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... Secretary of War , at Montgomery , authorized messenger from President Lincoln had just i Gov. Pickens and himself that provisions would be sen Sumter peaceably , or , otherwise , by force . " Gen. B. structed to demand the surrender of ...
... Secretary of War , at Montgomery , authorized messenger from President Lincoln had just i Gov. Pickens and himself that provisions would be sen Sumter peaceably , or , otherwise , by force . " Gen. B. structed to demand the surrender of ...
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