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| Title | The Southern States of the American Union: Considered in Their Relations to the Constitutions of the United States and to the Resulting Union The Southern States of the American Union: Considered in Their Relations to the Constitutions of the United States and to the Resulting Union, Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry |
| Author | Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry |
| Publisher | B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1895 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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