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Title: Memorial Day annual, 1912 : the causes and outbreak of the War between the States, 1861-1865 ; for use as a source book of contemporary authorities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Public Instruction Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Subjects: Secession
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : (Richmond Press, Inc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s negro recruits. 42 MEMORIAL DAY ANNUAL. Q. Brown, suppose 3ou had every nigger in the United States,what would you do with them? A. Set them free. Q. Your intentions were to carry them off and free them? A. Not at all. Bystander: To set them free would sacrifice the life of everyman in this community. Brown: I do not think so. Bystander: I know it. I think you are fanatical. Broivn: And I think you are fanatical. Whom the godswould destroy they first make mad, and you are mad. Q. Was it your only object to free the negroes? A. Absolutely our only object, Q. But you demanded and took Colonel Washingtons watchand silver? 14 A. Yes; we intended freely to appropriate the property ofslaveholders to carry out our object. It was for that and onlythat and with no designs to enrich ourselves with any plunderwhatever. Colonel Lewis W. Washington, great grandson of George Washingtonsonly brother. Brown and his party invaded Col. Washingtons home, tookhim prisoner and appropriated his property.
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JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. 44 MEMORIAL DAY ANNUAL. VIRGINIAS POSITION IN 1861—VIEWS OF ALL SEC-TIONS OF THE STATE. Hon,Edwin P. Cox. The John Brown raid had awakened the South, and Virginia in particular,to the possibiUties of that abolition sentiment which had been steadily grow-ing in the North since 1830; but this raid did not convince Virginia that sheshould break the ties of union in an effort to preserve her women and chil-dren from the ravages of self-constituted hberators and negroes. On thecontrary, Virginia positively declined to receive any overtures looking tosecession after the John Brown raid and declined to enter into an arrangementproposed by South CaroUna on the ground that it would mean secession.In 1860, however, the situation became more gloomy. The Democraticparty, meeting in national Convention in Charleston, became hopelesslydivided, and a split in the party resulted. Virginia did her best to heal thebreach, but when the Northern Democrats, assembling in Baltimore, d

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