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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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would divide our friends notonly in the Committee but in Congress ; a portion be-ing unwilling to give up their old opinion that the dutyof executing the constitutional provisions concerningfugitives from service belongs to the States, and notat all to Congress. But we shall confer and act aswisely as we can. Thus far I have reported only our action on thesubject of your suggestion. I proceed now to tell youwhat I think of the temper of the parties and of thepublic here. South Carolina has already taken her attitude ofdefiance. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisi-ana are pusiied on towards the same attitude. I thinkthat they could not be arrested even if we shouldoffer all you suggest and with it the restoration of theMissouri Compromise line. But persons acting forthose States intimate that they might be so arrestedbecause they think that the Republicans are not goingto concede the restoration of that line. The action of the border States is uncertain. Sym- 8o ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) pathy there is strong with the cotton-States, while pru-dence and patriotism dictate adhesion to the Union.Nothing could rtr/cr/w/)restrain them but the adoptionof Mr. Crittendens compromise, and I do not see theslightest indication of its adoption on the Republicanside of Congress. The members stand nearly or quiteas firm against it as the country is. Under these circum-stances, time and accident, it seems to me, must deter-mine the course of the border States. Probably all the debate and conferences we havehitherto had will sink out of the public mind withina week or two, when the Republican members shallhave refused to surrender at discretion to the State ofSouth Carolina. New and exciting subjects will enterinto the agitation and control results. Thus I have said all that I am able to say of thetemper of parties and of the public. I add, very respect-fully, my own opinion on the probable future. The United States of America, the

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