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Right here, at this great error, is it probable that our nation will perish, if perish it must. The breaking out of the Rebellion found the nation so debauched by slavery as to be incapable of meeting the Rebellion on the one square and simple itsue of...

Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith ...: On the Rebellion ... - Page 6
by Gerrit Smith - 1864
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State of New York: Messages from the Governors, Volume 5

New York (State). Governor - New York (State) - 1909 - 924 pages

...only support the Constitution of the United States and maintain the rights of the States, but we must restore our Union as it was before the outbreak of the war. The assertion that this war was the unavoidable result of slavery is not only erroneous, but it has...

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