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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 246 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 22 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. 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 12 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 10 0 Browse Search
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nt and too ready, perhaps, to grasp at anything that may be held out to them as a remedy; and the tide of passion, I fear, threatens to prove too strong for the counsels of moderation, of wisdom — perhaps, even of justice. Mr. Speaker, I now close my public life. Some ten years of it have been devoted to the duties of this hall of Legislature of my native State. I have served here, sir, in our halcyon days of peace and prosperity, when scarce a ripple disturbed the surface of that pacific ocean over which the bark of State smoothly glided, or when at most the mock tempests of party alone lashed us into a factitious and transitory excitement. I was here, too, during that delusive calm--"the torrent's smoothness ere it dashed below"--which was followed by our being suddenly precipitated into that gulf of whirling trials and troubles with which we have been since struggling. I have been here through all the real and terrible tornado, in the very heart and centre of which we are