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THE

CHURCH AND THE REBELLION:

A CONSIDERATION OF

THE REBELLION

AGAINST

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES;

AND THE

AGENCY OF THE CHURCH, NORTH AND SOUTH,

IN RELATION THERETO.

BY R. L. STANTON, D.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
DANVILLE, KENTUCKY.

NEW YORK:

DERBY & MILLER, 5 SPRUCE STREET

1864.

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In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER.

TO THE

YOUNG MEN OF THE UNITED STATES,

OF

EVERY CREED IN RELIGION AND EVERY PARTY IN POLITICS,

WHO PREFER

FREEDOM TO SLAVERY;

WHO ARE LOYAL TO THEIR COUNTRY,

AND WHO ARE

AIDING TO SUSTAIN ITS GOVERNMENT AGAINST REBELLION:

This Volume

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.