OF THE

AMERICAN UNION

CONSIDERED IN THEIR RELATIONS
TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
AND TO THE RESULTING UNION

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COPYRIGHT, 1894

BY

J. L. M. CURRY

Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

ΤΟ

THE SURVIVING SOLDIERS AND SAILORS,

WHO FOUGHT IN

THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES,

WHO RESPECT THE

PATRIOTISM AND COURAGE OF THEIR FOES,
AND WHO WOULD RALLY,

WITH EQUAL READINESS, UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES,
IN DEFENCE OF

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION;

TO ALL AMERICANS

WHO LOVE JUSTICE AND TRUTH,

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.