The Great Conspiracy"The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History" is a memoir work by a general in the Union Army, John Alexander Logan. In his book Logan sought to demonstrate that secession and the Civil War were the result of a long-contemplated "conspiracy" to which various Southern politicians had been party since the Nullification Crisis. |
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... Treason in the Northern Camps Chapter XXV. "The Fire in the Rear" Chapter XXVI. "Thirteenth Amendment" Defeated in the House Chapter XXVII. Slavery Doomed at the Polls Chapter XXVIII. Freedom at Last Assured Chapter XXIX. Lincoln's ...
... Treason in the Northern Camps Chapter XXV. "The Fire in the Rear" Chapter XXVI. "Thirteenth Amendment" Defeated in the House Chapter XXVII. Slavery Doomed at the Polls Chapter XXVIII. Freedom at Last Assured Chapter XXIX. Lincoln's ...
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... treason, he even went to the length of calling for an enrolling of volunteer forces and of holding them ready for service. But while South Carolina stood in this treasonable and defiant attitude, arming for war against the Union, there ...
... treason, he even went to the length of calling for an enrolling of volunteer forces and of holding them ready for service. But while South Carolina stood in this treasonable and defiant attitude, arming for war against the Union, there ...
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... Treason." And then, reminding them of the deeds of their fathers in the Revolution, he proceeds: "I adjure you, as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of ...
... Treason." And then, reminding them of the deeds of their fathers in the Revolution, he proceeds: "I adjure you, as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of ...
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... Treason was hailed in most of the Southern as well as the Northern States, almost at once broke the back of Nullification.7 The Nullifiers hailed with pretended satisfaction the report from the House Committee on Ways and Means of a ...
... Treason was hailed in most of the Southern as well as the Northern States, almost at once broke the back of Nullification.7 The Nullifiers hailed with pretended satisfaction the report from the House Committee on Ways and Means of a ...
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... Treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant People, sternly to rebuke and forever silence. Fourth, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State, to order and control its ...
... Treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant People, sternly to rebuke and forever silence. Fourth, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State, to order and control its ...
Contents
The Rejected Olive Branch | |
Slaverys Setting and Freedoms Dawn | |
Freedom Proclaimed to | |
Historical Review | |
Lincolns Troubles and Temptations | |
The Armed Negro | |
Freedoms Sun Still Rising | |
Thirteenth Amendment in the Senate | |
Treason in the Northern Camps | |
The Fire in the Rear | |
The Wardrum On to Washington | |
The Causes of Secession | |
Copperheadism vs Union Democracy | |
The Storm of Battle | |
The Colored Contraband | |
Freedoms Early Dawn | |
Compensated Gradual Emancipation | |
Borderstate Opposition | |
Thirteenth Amendment Defeated in the House | |
Slavery Doomed at the Polls | |
Freedom at Last Assured | |
Lincolns Second Inauguration | |
Collapse of the Armed Conspiracy | |
Assassination | |
What Next? | |
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