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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WAR THE ONLY ARBITRAMENT. 23 than this. The Government was in possession of evidence which at least rendered it very probable that at this time the separatists were in a minority in the South, even in those places where they were believed to be strongest. At the presidential election which had just been held, the votes for the unionist candidates in the states of the extreme South exceeded those for the candidate who repre-, sented the secession; in the intermediate states, the unionist votes formed two-thirds of the constituency; in Missouri, three-fourths. Will it be said that, with such facts before him, which were surely a safer criterion of Southern feeling than the votes of' conventions obtained under mob-terrorism, Mr. Lincoln should at once have acquiesced in the demand for secession, and quietly permitted the consummation of a conspiracy, which, for deliberate treachery, betrayal of sacred trusts, and shameless and gigantic fraud, has seldom been matched ? To have done so, would have been to have written himself down before the world as incompetent?nay, as a traitor to the cause which he had just sworn to defend. See Annuaire des Deux Mondes, 1860, p. 608; also the extract from the Commonwealth of Frankfort (Kentucky), p. 606, and that from the Charlestown Mercury, p. 609, from which it appears that on the eve of the presidential election, some of the leading journals of the South regarded the secession movement as the work of a tody of noisy demagogues, whose views found no response among the majority of the people. The right of secession became thus by force of circumstances the ostensible ground of the war; and with the bulk of the Northern people it must be admitted it was not only the ostensible but the real ground; for it is idle to claim for the North ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217283601 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217283608 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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