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    Speeches 
Alexander H. Stephens, "The Honor of This Country" 
John C. Calhoun, "Southern Address" 
William H. Seward, "A Higher Law" 
Charles Sumner, "The Crime Against Kansas" 
Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 
Alexander Stephens, "Let us, therefore, reason together" 
Robert E. Lee, "Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia" 
Thaddeus Stevens, "Lancaster (Pa.) Speech," 6 September 1865
Incessant and Violent Agitation
President James Buchanan, Dec 3 1860
There Is To Be No War Alfred Iverson of Georgia, Dec 4 1860
Cotton is King Louis Wigfall of Texas, Dec 6 1860
The Wide Awakes Louis Wigfall of Texas, Dec 6 1860
You Must Go to the Wall Benjamin Wade of Ohio, Dec 8 1860
Not a Southern or Any Other Confederacy Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, Dec 18 1860
Scatter Desolation and Carnage George Pugh of Ohio, Dec 20 1860
You Never Can Subjugate Us Judah Benjamin of Louisiana, Dec 31 1860
We Cannot Alter Our Free Government Edward Baker of Oregon, Dec 31 1860
To Separate Without Our Consent Stephen Douglas of Illinois, Jan 3 1861
     
        Journalism 
President or no President New York Evening Post, Jan 23 1861
England would thus achieve Cleveland Daily National Democrat, Nov 20 1860
Louisiana should help them New York Daily News, Dec 25 1860
Power and patronage Daily Chicago Times, Dec 10 1860
Make Massachusetts foot most of the bills Boston Daily Courier, Dec 18 1860
The Southern trade Manchester New Hampshire Union Democrat, Feb 19 1861
William Lloyd Garrison, "The Liberator" 
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of Individualism in Democratic Countries" 
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Why the Americans are so Restless" 
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Government of the Democracy in America" 
Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, 23 May 1856  
Staunton (Va.) Spectator, 13 and 20 November 1860 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly About War Matters" 
U.S. Grant, Meeting President Lincoln 
U.S. Grant,  Taking Command of the Army of the Potomac 
U.S. Grant, Plans for the 1864 Campaign 
Charleston (S.C.) Mercury, 13 January 1865
SC Governor F. W. Pickens to Gen. James Simons of the 4th Brigade, S.C. Militia.

Prospects of Slavery Expansion
The Terrors of Submission
Arkansas Editorial

The Crittenden Compromise Editorial
The Non-Slaveholders of the South
The Question of the Hour
What is the True Issue

Lincoln
Cooper Union Address
Speech at New Haven, Connecticut
First Inaugural
Letter to George Robertson
Proclamation Calling Militia
Proclamation of Blockage Against Southern Ports
House Divided Speech

Platforms, Pronouncements, and Proposals 

        Orders and Agreements 

Robert E. Lee, General Orders, No. 73 
William T. Sherman, Orders to the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta 
William T. Sherman, Special Field Orders, No. 120 
William T. Sherman, Special Field Orders, No. 15 
U.S. Grant, Meeting with Robert E. Lee, 9 April 1865 
William T. Sherman, First Agreement with Joseph E. Johnston, 18 April 1865