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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
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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nate, *one who, in his speeches, now thrown broad-cast over the country, made a distinct declaration of warupon our institutions. It was the old slavocratic charge,dressed up now and then in new phrases. Even at this late hour in the movement of events. North-ern men, and such as Seward, of New York, could not seethe impending outburst of civil war and continued talkingof compromise. Seward thought, at this time, that seces-sion ebullition would shortly subside, then a national con-vention might assemble and amend the Constitution. Butthe South had no thought of listening to further compromise.For this reason all attempts at compromise failed, and com-promise was the earnest thought and wish of such men asCrittenden, of Kentucky. Even Lincoln favored a constitu-tional amendment which should forbid Congress to interferewith slavery in the States. In these closing days of Bu-chanans administration no man in Congress who had theear of the public demanded interference w^ith slavery in the
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