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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 34 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 20 6 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 10 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 3 1 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
llification (then recently arrested), he said that the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and a Southern confederacy the real object, and added that the next pretext will be the negro or slavery question. Works, vol. v. pp. 433-436. Mr. Crawford, then living at the South, was harassed by his neighbors on account of the publication of this letter, and shortly after destroyed the original. It came to Sumner's hand through W. L. Burt, of Boston, a kinsman of Lucius Wilcox, of Canandaigua, N. Y., a son-in-law of Mr. Crawford. The letter was thus first made known to the country when its prediction was being fulfilled. The panic at this time was nowhere greater than in Boston, where popular demonstrations in favor of compromise were made. Seward's speech and Adams's propositions had turned the public mind in that direction, and the masses of men do not at such a time discriminate between different schemes. The supporters of Bell, Douglas, and Breckinridge, being in a majori