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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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an unpaid police, and manyfertile regions of the world, where the white man cannotlabor, are brought into usefulness by the labor of the Afri-can, and the whole world Is blessed by our productions. Allwe demand of other peoples Is to be left alone, to work outour own high destinies. . . . United together, and werequire no other Instrument to conquer peace, than ourbeneficent productions. United together, and we must bea great, free, prosperous people, whose renown must spreadthroughout the civilized world, and pass down, we trust,to the remotest ages. We ask you to join us In forming aConfederacy of Slaveholding States. To this conclusion had the slave power come; to this endhad It planned; for this consummation had It hoped. Wasit possible, now, at the moment when Lincoln should assumethe duties of president of the United States that his earnestexpectation could be realized, that the Union would not bedissolved—that the house would not fall—and that it wouldcease to be divided? ^
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CHAPTER IIICONFEDERACY OR NATION In marshalling the reasons and causes which impelledthem to secede from the Union, the authors of the SouthCarolina Declaration and Address claimed that the Stateswere sovereign; that the Constitution of the United Stateswas a compact between sovereign States; that In the ad-ministration of the government under the Constitution theNorth by power of its majority vote in Congress had Im-posed an obnoxious and injurious tariff on the country,grievously affecting the South, and had in other ways vio-lated the principles of the compact. In addition to the de-fense of slavery and the desire to found a slaveholding Con-federacy, the South, complaining of the attitude of theNorth toward slavery, rested its cause on State sovereignty,hostility to a protective tariff, preference for an agriculturalto a commercial or manufacturing state of society, and theright of secession. Eliminating slavery as a cause for civilwar, in i860, there remain two other causes: anta

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