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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
s our mechanics, our merchants, our lawyers, our editors, look this matter in the face, and calculate the consequences, they will see their interest so strong in the movement, I fear they will be violent beyond control. The seizure of the Government, before Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, was a part of the plan of operations. The successful, unrestricted installation of Lincoln, wrote this viper, nestled in the warm bosom of the Republic, is the beginning of the end of Slavery. Letter to Mr. Peterson, of Mississippi. It fell into the hands of United States troops while in that region, in 1863. Thompson afterward took up arms against the Republic, plotted the blackest crimes against the people of his country while-finding an asylum in Canada, and was finally charged with complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. Floyd, indicted for enormous frauds on the Government while in office, perished ignobly, after wearing the insignia of a brigadier-general among the insurgent enemies of