Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... Union ? Nathaniel Beverley Tucker , a Virginian , once explained that the South was driven to that drastic action when the North finally succeeded in electing a President with northern votes alone . Every southerner recognized , Tucker ...
... Union ? Nathaniel Beverley Tucker , a Virginian , once explained that the South was driven to that drastic action when the North finally succeeded in electing a President with northern votes alone . Every southerner recognized , Tucker ...
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... Union . At the same time the original thirteenth amendment to the Constitution , which would have guaranteed slavery ... Union restored and slavery intact , a result that President Lincoln would have accepted . His famous letter to ...
... Union . At the same time the original thirteenth amendment to the Constitution , which would have guaranteed slavery ... Union restored and slavery intact , a result that President Lincoln would have accepted . His famous letter to ...
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... Union while the South strives just as diligently to persuade her to secede . In Washington , the effete Van Buren , who presides over the government in a posture of continuous repose , sends federal troops into Virginia ostensibly to ...
... Union while the South strives just as diligently to persuade her to secede . In Washington , the effete Van Buren , who presides over the government in a posture of continuous repose , sends federal troops into Virginia ostensibly to ...
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