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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
a new government. He has thus been guilty of the unprincipled conduct of using the people's money to lavish upon traitors, and encourage them to perseverance in their work of treason. The history of Abraham Lincoln is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having for their object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these Confederate States. To this end he has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with Pierpont, and other traitors in Virginia, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. He is endeavoring to quarter large bodies of armed troops amongst us. He is endeavoring to cut off our trade with all parts of the world. He is endeavoring to impose taxes upon us without our consent. He is endeavoring to deprive us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. He has abdica