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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... South- ern people should seize some of the Federal forts in the South- ern ... Southern Confederacy . An official report from the ordnance department , dated ... Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled ...
... South- ern people should seize some of the Federal forts in the South- ern ... Southern Confederacy . An official report from the ordnance department , dated ... Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled ...
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... South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America ; " and on the 24th the Governor issued his proclamation , declaring the State of South Carolina to be a " separate , sovereign , free , and independent ...
... South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America ; " and on the 24th the Governor issued his proclamation , declaring the State of South Carolina to be a " separate , sovereign , free , and independent ...
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... South Carolina was not the event of a day . It is not , " said he , " any thing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election , or by the non - execution of the Fugitive Slave Law . It is a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years ...
... South Carolina was not the event of a day . It is not , " said he , " any thing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election , or by the non - execution of the Fugitive Slave Law . It is a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years ...
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... South Carolina would make an attempt to seize one or more of the forts in the harbor of Charleston , created considerable uneasiness at Washington ; and on the 9th of December the Representatives from that State wrote to the President ...
... South Carolina would make an attempt to seize one or more of the forts in the harbor of Charleston , created considerable uneasiness at Washington ; and on the 9th of December the Representatives from that State wrote to the President ...
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... South Carolina . The President replied on the 30th , reviewing the whole question - stating that in re- moving from Fort Moultrie Major Anderson acted solely on his own responsibility , and that his first impulse on hearing of it was to ...
... South Carolina . The President replied on the 30th , reviewing the whole question - stating that in re- moving from Fort Moultrie Major Anderson acted solely on his own responsibility , and that his first impulse on hearing of it was to ...
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