Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative |
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... called abolition houses , and a white list , called constitutional houses , were published in the South , and Southern buyers were advised , and even warned , to place their orders with the proper parties . Northern business men and ...
... called abolition houses , and a white list , called constitutional houses , were published in the South , and Southern buyers were advised , and even warned , to place their orders with the proper parties . Northern business men and ...
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... called a Wigwam , had been erected by the Republicans of Chicago at an expense of seven thousand dollars for the special use of the Convention . It was tastefully decorated within and was spacious enough to hold ten thousand persons . A ...
... called a Wigwam , had been erected by the Republicans of Chicago at an expense of seven thousand dollars for the special use of the Convention . It was tastefully decorated within and was spacious enough to hold ten thousand persons . A ...
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... called for Webster's reply to Hayne , a speech which he read when he lived at New Salem and which he always regarded as the grandest specimen of American oratory . With these few volumes , and no further sources of reference , he locked ...
... called for Webster's reply to Hayne , a speech which he read when he lived at New Salem and which he always regarded as the grandest specimen of American oratory . With these few volumes , and no further sources of reference , he locked ...
Contents
Contents | 17 |
Echoes from Harpers Ferry | 29 |
The Trial of John Brown | 39 |
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