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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 0 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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 0 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 II. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], The indebtedness of the North. (search)
not overstate the total liabilities of the United States at the present time at two thousand millions of dollars. Pennsylvania is about one tenth of the "Union as it was." Her proportion of the national debt is, therefore, two hundred millions oimpoverish and destroy the South, depopulate her cities, her towns, and her plantations, the proportion of the debt to Pennsylvania will be increased fifty per cent., making her liabilities for the war four hundred millions of dollars. The expenses hich has no intrinsic value, I have no means of calculating. The valuation of the property, real and personal, in Pennsylvania, as fixed by the revenue board of 1863, is five hundred and ninety-six millions of dollars. The ascertained and regising claims for damages, etc., etc., we then have a debt more than four times the value of the property of all kinds in Pennsylvania, as returned by the assessors to the county commissioners. This comparison also will assist us to form some adequ
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], An independent speech. (search)
is not a small one,) who think us, in the sense of consolidation, one people, it has no meaning. To the minds of those who think as we do it has a deep significance. It means this: That so long as the Union lasts and the Constitution stands Pennsylvania, united with her sister States, has no wish to resume any power which, for the common good and for specified and limited purposes, she surrendered; no thought of separation, no dream of isolation, no wish of being other than she was before thiore than this. It means that if, in the dread dispensation of Providence, punishing us for our conscious and unconscious sins, the Union, once and still our pride, should perish, either through violence or less agonizing disintegration — that Pennsylvania, still a sovereign Commonwealth, still an organized community, shall have power to stand by itself or to seek new companionship, or — and I now repeat language uttered by me before a drop of blood was shed, and which no threat has ever led me