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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1,857 43 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 250 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 242 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 138 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 129 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 126 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 116 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 116 6 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 114 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 89 3 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
the virgin soil of Kansas with the blood of those who should have stood shoulder to shoulder in subduing the wilderness; for the frauds which corrupted the ballot-box and made the name of election a misnomer-let the authors of squatters sovereignty and the fomenters of sectional hatred answer to the posterity for whose peace and happiness the fathers formed the federal compact. In these scenes of strife were trained the incendiaries who afterward invaded Virginia under the leadership of John Brown; at this time germinated the sentiments which led men of high position to sustain, with their influence and their money, this murderous incursion into the South. See Report of Senate Committee of Inquiry into the John Brown Raid. Now was seen the lightning of that storm, the distant muttering of which had been heard so long, and against which the wise and the patriotic had given solemn warning, regarding it as the sign which portended a dissolution of the Union. Diversity of int
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
y and non-intervention were plausible, specious, and captivating to the public ear. Too many lost sight of the elementary truth that political sovereignty does not reside in unorganized or partially organized masses of individuals, but in the people of regularly and permanently constituted states. As to the noninter-vention proposed, it meant merely the abnegation by Congress of its duty to protect the inhabitants of the territories subject to its control. The raid into Virginia under John Brown—already notorious as a fanatical partisan leader in the Kansas troubles—occurred in October, 1859, a few weeks before the meeting of the Thirty-sixth Congress. Insignificant in itself and in its immediate results, it afforded a startling revelation of the extent to which sectional hatred and political fanaticism had blinded the conscience of a class of persons in certain states of the Union, forming a party steadily growing stronger in numbers, as well as in activity. Sympathy with its p
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
of Great Britain, as justifying the separation of the colonies from that country, was that of having excited domestic insurrections among us. Now, the mails were burdened with incendiary publications, secret emissaries had been sent, and in one case an armed invasion of one of the states had taken place for the very purpose of exciting domestic insurrection. It was not the passage of the personal liberty laws, it was not the circulation of incendiary documents, it was not the raid of John Brown, it was not the operation of unjust and unequal tariff laws, nor all combined, that constituted the intolerable grievance, but it was the systematic and persistent struggle to deprive the Southern states of equality in the Union—generally to discriminate in legislation against the interests of their people; culminating in their exclusion from the territories, the common property of the states, as well as by the infraction of their compact to promote domestic tranquillity. The question w
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
e the peace, and said, I assure the people that no troops will be sent from Maryland, unless it may be for the defense of the national capital. On the same day Mayor Brown, of the city of Baltimore, issued a proclamation in which, referring to that of the governor above cited, he said, I can not withhold my expression of satisfact city were destroyed, as it was understood, by orders from the authorities of Baltimore. On April 20th President Lincoln wrote in reply to Governor Hicks and Mayor Brown, saying, For the future, troops must be brought here, but I make no point of bringing them through Baltimore. On the next day, the 21st, Mayor Brown and other Mayor Brown and other influential citizens, by request of the President, visited him. The interview took place in presence of the cabinet and General Scott, and was reported to the public by the mayor after his return to Baltimore. From that report I make the following extracts. Referring to the President, the mayor uses the following language: Th
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
W. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214. Brooklyn navy yard. Site ceded to Federal government by New York, 179. Brown, Mayor of Baltimore, 288. Extract from report of conference with Lincoln, 289. Brown, John, 27,36, 70. Brown, JoseBrown, John, 27,36, 70. Brown, Joseph E., Letter from Davis concerning conscription law, 434-39. Brown, William J., 18. Buchanan, James, Pres. of U. S., 31, 47, 48, 50, 51, 161, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 188, 212, 228-29, 233, 234, 355, 427. Buckner, Gen. S. B., 342, 348 332, 380. Election to presidency, 161. Jenifer, Colonel, 377. Jersey plan, 91-92. Jessup, General, 22. John Brown raid, 27, 36, 70. Johnson, Andrew, pres. U. S., 216. Herschel, V., 43, 44. J. H., 338. John M., 338. Johnst8-99. Vermont, 63. Virginia, 42, 259, 379-80. Slavery question, 1, 2, 27. Northwestern territory, 4, 28, 41. John Brown raid, 27, 36. Commissioners to Annapolis, 76. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 78. Ratificati