History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... adopted a platform of which this was the cardinal feature ; but it also took good care to repel the imputation of its poli- tical opponents , and to remove the apprehensions of the South , that the party proposed to interfere with ...
... adopted a platform of which this was the cardinal feature ; but it also took good care to repel the imputation of its poli- tical opponents , and to remove the apprehensions of the South , that the party proposed to interfere with ...
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... adoption of those measures , which , according to the same authority , if carried into execution , would have defeated ... adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession ...
... adoption of those measures , which , according to the same authority , if carried into execution , would have defeated ... adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession ...
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... adopted May 23 , 1788 , whereby the Constitu- tion of the United States was ratified , and " dissolving the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America ; " and on the 24th ...
... adopted May 23 , 1788 , whereby the Constitu- tion of the United States was ratified , and " dissolving the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America ; " and on the 24th ...
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... adopted a provisional constitution , to continue in operation for one year . Under this constitution Jefferson Davis was clected President of the new Confederacy , and Alex . H. Stephens , of Georgia , Vice - President . Both were ...
... adopted a provisional constitution , to continue in operation for one year . Under this constitution Jefferson Davis was clected President of the new Confederacy , and Alex . H. Stephens , of Georgia , Vice - President . Both were ...
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... adopted for the organization of a regular army of the Confederacy , and on the 6th of March Congress passed an act authorizing a military force of 100,000 men . Thus was opened a new chapter in the history of America . Thus were taken ...
... adopted for the organization of a regular army of the Confederacy , and on the 6th of March Congress passed an act authorizing a military force of 100,000 men . Thus was opened a new chapter in the history of America . Thus were taken ...
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