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The Civil War era Unionists on Secession and Slavery
The New York Tribune opinion piece argues across seven points that secession is driven by slaveholding interests and predicts Republican obstruction in Congress. It asserts the Supreme Court and federal judiciary favor slavery, warns against compromising with the seceding states, and states that reconciliation would imply accepting their right to secede and the reasons behind it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Iiss
Bodteath Pehle
Mailaberatios
Advange
Gurgawedda
Tennessee
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Gre Vote In This State On the 9Th Inst. the Warmest Friends of the Union
East Tennessee
Lincoln
Missouri
Washington
Texas
North Carolina
United States
Ion
New York World
New York
N. Y. Tribune
Thirtieth Street
Astor House
Fifth Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
St. Louis Springfield
Court House
St. Louis
M . Hawkins
Democrat
Ple
Maj. Hawkins
Major Hawkins
Hawkins
Miesisai
Ottumwa
South
Messrs
Harrison & Ellinson
Keokuk
Harrison
Mississippi
North
Indianapolis
Gulf Cities
Smith County
North Ogi
Onion Clemens
Senate
Supreme Bench
Congress
Supreme Court
Jeff. Davis
A. H. Stephens
Friends of the Union
New York Tribune