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• United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861 -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc

• Presidency of James Buchanan

• The Christian Idea of Civil Government (New York: G. F. Nesbitt and Co., 1861), by Francis Vinton
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• Disunion and Slavery: A Series of Letters to Hon. W. L. Yancey, of Alabama, by Henry J. Raymond, of New York (letters dated 1860), by Henry J. Raymond
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• Disunion: Its Remedy (Washington, DC: Buell and Blanchard, 1860), by George M. Weston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Posting the Books Between the North and the South": Speech of Hon. John J. Perry, of Maine (Republican State Central Committee of California Campaign Document #5; 1860), by John J. Perry
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• The Rights of White Men Vindicated: Speech of Hon. Stephen C. Foster, of Maine, Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, March 10th, 1858 (Washington: Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1858), by Stephen C. Foster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Speech of Hon. William Allen of Ohio on the State of the Union, Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1861 (Washington: McGill and Witherow, Printers, 1861), by William Allen
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• Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered During the Summer of 1858 (Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy and Co., 1859), by Jefferson Davis
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• The State of the Country: An Article Republished from The Southern Presbyterian Review (third edition; Columbia, SC: Southern Guardian Steam-power Press, 1861), by James Henley Thornwell
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• The Address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, in Vindication of the Policy of the Framers of the Constitution and the Principles of the Republican Party, Delivered at Cooper Institute, February 27th, 1860 (New York: G. F. Nesbitt and Co., 1860), by Abraham Lincoln, contrib. by Charles C. Nott and Cephas Brainerd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Democratic Leaders for Disunion: Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Jan. 25, 1860 (Tribune Tracts #2; New York :New York Tribune, 1860), by Henry Wilson
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• Federalism Unmasked: or, The Rights of the States, the Congress, the Executive, and the People Vindicated Against the Encroachments of the Judiciary, Prompted by The Modern Apostate Democracy, Being a Compilation From the Writings and Speeches of the Leaders of the Old Jeffersonian Republican Party (with Republican campaign literature listings on back page; 1860), by Daniel R. Goodloe
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• Liberty and Union! Speeches Delivered at the Eighteenth Ward Republican Festival, in Commemoration of the birth of Washington (New York: Baker and Godwin, 1860), by Eighteenth Ward Republican Association
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• Opposition of the South to the Development of Oregon and of Washington Territory: The Interests of the West (1859), by Republican Association of Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, in Favor of a Southern Convention (Jackson, MS: House of Delegates, 1860), by Mississippi Legislature (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Speech by Harvey S. Brown, of San Francisco: California and the Democracy (Campaign Document #8; San Francisco: Republican State Central Committee, 1860), by Harvey S. Brown
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• The Peace Convention of 1861 (Confederate Centennial Studies #18; Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Pub. Co., 1961), by Jesse Lynn Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Pub. for the Ohio Historical Society by the Ohio State University Press, c1959), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen
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• Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time, by Edmund Ruffin (page images at MOA)
• Democracy Alias Slavery: Speech of Hon. Jas. B. McKean, of New York. Delivered in the U. S. House of Representatives, June 6, 1860, by Jas. B. McKean (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Extract from a Speech by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, January 1861, by Alexander H. Stephens
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• Our Country: Its Peril and Its Deliverance, by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Hon. Francis W. Kellogg, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, June 12, 1860, by Francis William Kellogg (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, Against the Revolutionary Movement of the Anti-Slavery Party, by Thomas Lanier Clingman (page images at MOA)
• True Democracy: History Vindicated, by Charles Henry Van Wyck (page images at MOA)
• Political Issues and Presidential Candidates: Speech of the Hon. John Hickman, Delivered in Concert Hall, Philadelphia, July 24th, 1860; Also the Republican Platform (1860), by John Hickman and Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• Remarks of Hon. Bedford Brown, of Caswell, Made in the Senate of North Carolina on Dec. 19th, 1860, on the Resolutions of Mr. Hall, of New Hanover, on Federal Relations (ca. 1860), by Bedford Brown
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• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The disunionist: a brief treatise upon the evils of the union between the North and the South, and the propriety of separation and the formation of a southern United States. By Herbert Fielder, of Georgia. ([n.p.] Printed for the author, 1858), by Herbert Fielder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial to Congress, adopted at a meeting of citizens at the rooms of the Chamber of commerce, Friday, January 18, 1861. ([New York, 1861]), by New York Citizens (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the people of the North. ([Louisville, Ky., Hanna & co., printers?, 1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Force bill. Speech of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 20 and 21, 1861. ([Washington, W.H. Moore, Printer, 1861]), by Thomas S. Bocock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peril of our ship of state: a sermon on the day of fasting and prayer, January 4th, 1861 ... (New York, J.A. Gray, printer, 1861), by William R. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas, on the state of the Union. ([Washington : L. Towers, 1861]), by Albert Rust (page images at HathiTrust)
• The North forbearing the South aggressive. Speech of Hon. J.B. Alley of Mass., delivered in the House of representatives January 26, 1861. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by John B. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of Thomas D. Eliot, ([Washington, H. Polkinhorn, printer, 1861]), by Thomas D. Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. E. P. Walton, of Vermont, upon the report of the Committee of thirty-three upon the state of the Union. ([Washington, W. H. Moore, printer, 1861]), by E. P. Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S. S. Blair, of Penn. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 23, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the National Republican Office, 1861]), by Samuel Steel Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on the crisis, by Hon. Robert McClelland. ([Detroit, 1861]), by Robert McClelland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our national troubles. A thanksgiving sermon. Delivered in the First Baptist church, before the First and the Tabernacle Baptist congregations of Philadelphia, on Thursday morning, Nov. 29, 1860 / by William T. Brantly. (Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson & Bros., 1860), by William T. Brantly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston Courier report of the union meeting in Faneuil Hall, Thursday, Dec. 8th, 1859 ... phonographic report. (Boston : Clark, Fellows & Co., office of the Boston Courier, [1859]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political crisis of 1861. A reply to Mr. Blaine, (Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1884), by Christopher Stuart Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second address to the people of Maryland. (Baltimore, Printed by J. Young, 1861), by William Handy Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of L. Madison Day, (New Orleans, Clark & Brisbin, printers, 1862), by L. Madison Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constitutionality and rightfulness of secession. ([n.p., 1860]), by Andrew Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ohio politics. Cox after Giddings. "Father Giddings" dodges under the bush with his colored friend. ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1859]), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, against the revolutionary movement of the anti-slavery party; (Washington, Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1860), by Thomas Lanier Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secession an absurdity : it is perjury, treason & war ; to which are added Treason defined, Declaration of independence, and Constitution of the United States / by Francis C. Treadwell. (New York : Torrey Bros, printer, 1861), by Francis C. Treadwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causes and remedies of the present convulsions: a discourse (Buffalo, J. Warren & co., printers, 1861), by John Chase Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of proceedings connected with the great Union meeting, held at the Academy of Music, New York, December 19th, 1859. (New York, Davies & Roberts, printers, 1859), by New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on the present crisis; addressed to Hon. Gilman Marston, member of Congress from New Hampshire, by Nathaniel G. Upham, February 20, 1861. (Concord, Steam press of McFarland & Jenks, 1861), by Nathaniel Gookin Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain truths for the people. (Washington, Buell & Blanchard, printers, [1858]), by Benjamin Franklin Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Alexander R. Boteler, of Virginia, on the organization of the House. (Washington, D.C. : W.H. Moore, printer, 1860), by Alexander Robinson Boteler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Important correspondence. Friendly discussion of party politics in 1860-1. ([n.p., 1865?]), by Roswell Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits and sketches of John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane : together with the National Democratic Platform, the Cincinnati Platform, and the Constitution of the United States. (New York : J.C. Buttre, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official report of the great Union meeting, held at the Academy of music, New York, December 19th, 1859. (New York, Davies & Kent, 1859), by Dec. 19 New York. Union meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revolution of 1860: a speech delivered by Mr. Sickles, of New York, in the House of representatives, ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by Daniel Edgar Sickles (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. John Hutchins, of Ohio, in the House of representatives, February 9, 1861. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by John Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinful but not forsaken. A sermon, preached in the Presbyterian church, Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street, New York, on the day of national fasting, January 4, 1861. (New York, A. D. F. Randolph, 1861), by Alexander Taggart McGill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The union must be preserved! Four crisis letters to the ladies, proposing the speedy formation of the Martha Washington society. (New York, J. H. Duyckinck, Printer, [1860]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern remedy. (Macon [Ga.] Printed for the authors, 1859), by James H. Rodgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The state of the Union. Speech of Hon. James Humphrey, of New York, delivered in the House of representatives, February 6, 1861. (Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861), by James Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Union meeting. (Philadelphia, Crissy & Markley, printers, [1859]), by Philadelphia. Union meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. T. L. Anderson, of Missouri, on the principles and policy of the black Republican party and the duty of Whigs and Americans in the approaching state and presidential elections. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 16, 1860. ([Washington, D.C.] Printed by Lemuel Towers, [1860]), by Thomas Lilbourn Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, on the subject of congressional legislation, as to the rights of property in the territories, delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7 & 8, 1860. (Baltimore : Printed by J. Murphy, 1860), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania. Delivered in the House of representatives, January 29, 1861. ([Washington, 1861]), by Thaddeus Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. William B. Stokes, of Tennessee, on the state of the Union. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 1, 1861. (Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1861), by William B. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Wm. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 21, 1861. ([Washington, D.C., H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Press, 1861]), by William Bigler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defence of the national Democracy against the attack of Judge Douglas--constitutional rights of the states. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 22, 1860. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1860]), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die nationale politik. Rede von Abraham Lincoln gehalten im Cooper institut, New-York am 27. februar 1860. ([New York, 1860]), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• The limits of responsibility in reforms / by T.R. Sullivan. (Boston : A. Williams and Co., 1861), by T. R. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval appropriation bill. Speech ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]), by James Stephen Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The five cotton state and New York; ([Philadelphia?], 1861), by Stephen Colwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Mr. Bouligny of La., & Mr. Sickles of N. Y. delivered in the House of representatives, Feb. 5, 1861. ([n.p., 1861]), by John Edmund Bouligny (page images at HathiTrust)
• New phases of the revolution--how to meet them. ([n.p., 1861]), by Daniel Edgar Sickles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American question in its national aspect. (New York, H. H. Lloyd & co., 1861), by Elias Peissner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sin and the curse; or, The Union, the true source of disunion, and our duty in the present crisis. A discourse preached on the occasion of the day of humiliation and prayer appointed by the governor of South Carolina, on November 21st, 1860, in the Second Presbyterian church, Charleston, S. C., by Rev. Thomas Smyth. Pub. by request of the session and corporation. (Charleston, Steam-power presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by Thomas Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address and correspondence of the Democratic state committee of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, B. F. Jackson, printer, [1857]), by Democratic party. Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present crisis: with reply and appeal to European advisers, (Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1860), by Samuel Nott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from Hon. William T. Avery, of Tennessee : to his constituents. (Washington : s.n., 1860), by William T. Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Force bill. ([Washington, 1861]), by Henry Clay Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Concessions and compromises. (Philadelphia, C. Sherman & son, printers, [1860]), by Joshua Francis Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. John A. McClernand, of Illinois, on the state of the Union: delivered in the House of representatives, January 14, 1861. (Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1861), by John A. McClernand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse delivered by Rev. Dr. R. J. Breckinridge, ([Lexington?, 1861]), by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Kentucky commissioners to the late Peace conference held at Washington City, made to the legislature of Kentucky. (Frankfort, Printed at the Yeoman Office, J. B. Major, state printer, 1861), by February Kentucky. Commissioners to the Peace conference at Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the Union. Speech of Hon. Alfred Ely, of New York, delivered in the House of representatives, February 18th, 1861. ([Washington, 1861]), by Alfred Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters addressed to Hon. James Buchanan, president of the United States, January 10th and 16th 1861, (Salem, 1866), by Charles Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the conference convention. ([Washington, 1861]), by D.C. Peace Conference Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy alias slavery. Speech of Hon. James B. McKean, of New York. Delivered in the U. S. House of representatives, June 6, 1860. ([Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1860]), by Jas. B. McKean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on his resolutions relative to the rights of property in the territories, etc. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7, 1860. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1860]), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The preservation of the States united:" a discourse delivered in Harvard church, Charlestown, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 29, 1860. By George Ellis. (Charlestown [Mass.] A. E. Cutter, 1860), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coercion of the North, (Baltimore, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A campaign tract for 1864. ([n. p., 1864]), by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Rice, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, February 26, 1861. ([Washington, 1861]), by Alexander Hamilton Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• A private citizen's proposal for the settlement of all differences between the northern and southern states. ([S.l. : s.n., 1860?]), by Populus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. J. W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, on the state of the Union. Delivered in the House of representatives, January 30, 1861. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1861]), by J. W. Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemplated secession from the federal republic of North America, by the southern states. ([Detroit?, 1860]), by James Dale Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware, on the state of the Union. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 2, 1860. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1860]), by Willard Saulsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Lincoln and Douglas in the campaign of 1858; (New York, Maynard, Merrill, & co., [1899]), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Orris S. Ferry, of Connecticut. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 10, 1860. ([Washington, Republican executive congressional committee, 1860]), by Orris Sanford Ferry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Union letter from a countryman to his fellow-citizens of Howard County. ([n.p., 1861]), by R. H. Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. O.S. Ferry, of Conn., delivered in the House of representatives, January 24, 1861. ([Washington, 1861]), by Orris Sanford Ferry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs of the slave power : speech of Hon. Reuben E. Fenton, of New York / delivered in the United States House of Representatives, February 24, 1858. (Washington, D.C. : Buell & Blanchard, 1858), by Reuben E. Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. W. B. Stokes, of Tennessee : on the election of speaker / delivered in the House of Representatives, January 7, 1860. (Washington : Printed by L. Towers, 1861), by William B. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of the Hon. John H. Reagan, of Texas. Delivered in the House of representatives, January 15, 1861. ([Washington, W.H. Moore, printer, 1861]), by John H. Reagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The 'manifest destiny' of the American union ... (New York, American anti-slavery society, 1857), by Harriet Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Union; past, present, and future. A speech delivered by Hon. W.W. Eaton, at City hall, Hartford, on Saturday evening, March 3d, 1860. ([Hartford?] Pub. by order of the Democratic state central committee, 1860), by William Wallace Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the Senate and representatives of the U. S. of America in Congress assembled. ([Washington, 1861]), by Emma Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of the Hon. Sidney Edgerton, of Ohio, delivered in the House of representatives, January 31, 1861. ([Washington, H. Polkinhorn, printer, 1861]), by Sidney Edgerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The admission of Kansas. ([New York, 1860]), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Lazarus W. Powell, of Kentucky, on the state of the Union: delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 22, 1861. (Washington, Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1861), by Lazurus Whitehead Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our republic, brotherhood. A discourse delivered in St. John's church, Delhi, N.Y., on the national fast day, Jan. 4th, 1861, by the Rev. A.D. Benedict ... (Delhi, Gazette print, [1861]), by Andrew Dibble Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six speeches, (Boston, Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Eli Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. George E. Pugh, of Ohio, on the state of the Union. ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1860]), by George Ellis Pugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. M. J. Crawford, of Georgia, on the election of speaker. Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 15, 1859. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1859]), by M. J. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national capitol, the national archives, and the national government, saved : January, 1861. (Washington : [s.n.], 1865), by George B. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The incidents of the Lecompton struggle in Congress and the campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Speech of Hon. William Kellogg, of Illinois. Delivered in the House of representatives, March 13, 1860. ([Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1860]), by William Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings and speeches at a public meeting of the friends of the Union, in the city of Baltimore, held at the Maryland institute, on Tursday evening, January 10, 1861. (Baltimore, Printed by J. D. Toy, 1861), by Baltimore. Citizens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ides of March; (Philadelphia, King & Baird, printers, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. P. Hitchcock, of Geauga, on the "Bill to prevent giving aid to fugitive slaves." (Columbus [Ohio] R. Nevins' steam printing house, 1861), by Peter Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of John P. Hale, on the state of the Union, Thursday, January 31, 1861. ([Washington, Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office, 1861]), by John P. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conciliation and nationality! ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1861]), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, on the increase of the army. In the United States Senate, January 26 and 28, and February 2, 1858. ([Washington, Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858]), by John P. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the people of Maryland. (Baltimore, Printed by J. Young, 1861), by William Handy Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 3, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, of N.Y., on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of representatives, Dec. 10, 1860, on the motion to excuse Hon. Mr. Hawkins, of Florida, from serving on the Committee of one from each state, to which was referred so much of the President's message as relates to the secession of states from the Union. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printer, 1860]), by Daniel Edgar Sickles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revolutionary movement : letter from Hon. Alfred Ely. (Washington : s.n., 1861), by Alfred Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secession of South Carolina. Speech of Hon. D. C. De Jarnette, of Virginia, in the House of representatives, January 10, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]), by Daniel C. De Jarnette (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, in the House of representatives, January 22, 1861. ([Washington] : Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe, [1861]), by Sherrard Clemens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. James F. Simmons, of Rhode Island, on the state of the Union. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 16, 1861. ([Washington, D.C. : Printed by L. Towers, 1861]), by James Fowler Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faulkner's history of the revolution in the southern states; (New York [J. F. Trow, printer], 1861), by Thomas C. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secession of the whole South an existing fact. ([Cincinnati, Ohio, H. Reed & co., 1861]), by Henry Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations relative to a southern confederacy. (Raleigh, "Standard office" print., 1860), by Henry King Burgwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Morton S. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, on the Constitution as it is; delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 2, 1861. (Washington, 1861), by Morton Smith Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Garnett B. Adrain, of New Jersey, in the House of representatives, January 15, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the Office of the Congressional Globe, 1861]), by Garnett B. Adrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom takes "no step backwards." Speech of Hon. Harrison G. Blake, of Ohio. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 19, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the National Republican Office, 1861]), by Harrison G. Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of John A. Bingham, of Ohio, in the House of representatives, January 22, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]), by John Armor Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Union--peace--popular rights. ([Washington, Printed at the National republican office, 1861]), by Edward Joy Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. John Cochrane, of New York, on the union and the Constitution. Delivered in the House of representatives, December 20, 1859. ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1859]), by John Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the Union. Speech of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, delivered in the House of representatives, January 30, 1861. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by Roscoe Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York : delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York, July 18, 1860. (Washington City : Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee, 1860), by Daniel S. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon on the present national troubles, delivered in the Winter Street Church, January 4, 1861, the day of the National fast / by John O. Fiske, Pastor of Winter Street Church, Bath, Me. (Bath [Me.] : Printed at the Daily Times office, 1861), by John O. Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Cassius M. Clay, at Frankfort, Ky., from the Capitol steps, January 10, 1860 ... ([Cincinnati?, 1860]), by Cassius Marcellus Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disunion and its results to the South. A letter from a resident of Washington to a friend in South Carolina. (Washington, H. Polkinhorn, printer, [1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks of the Hon. John B. Haskin, of Westchester County, New York, in reply to attack made by the President's home organ, "The Constitution," upon anti-Lecompton Democrats, and colloquy between Mr. Logan, of Illinois, and Mr. Haskin. (Washington, T. McGill, printer, 1859), by John Bussing Haskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, in reply to Hon. Thomas Corwin, on the election of speaker. Delivered in the House of representatives, December 8, 1959. (Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1859), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inaugural address of the President of the United States, on the fourth of March, 1857. (Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1857), by United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rights of white men vindicated. Speech of Hon. Stephen C. Foster, of Maine. Delivered in the U. S. House of representatives, March 10th, 1858. ([Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858]), by Stephen C. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address: by Thomas H. Stockton, chaplain U. S. H. R., delivered in the hall of the House of representatives, (Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1861), by Thomas Hewlings Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report made to the General assembly at the state of Rhode Islands, at their January session, 1861, (Providence, Cooke & Danielson, printers, 1861), by February Rhode Island. Commissioners to the Peace conference at Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abram Lincoln and South Carolina / by J. Wagner Jermon. (Philadelphia : D.E. Thompson, printer, 1861), by J. Wagner Jermon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches and addresses delivered in the Congress of the United States, and on several public occasions [1856-1865] (New York, Harper & brothers, 1867), by Henry Winter Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. R. R. Butler, representative from Carter and Johnson counties, in the House of representatives, upon the resolutions introduced by Mr. Bayless, in reference to the Harper's Ferry insurrection. ([Nashville? Tenn., 1859?]), by R. R. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern opinion of approaching secession, October, 1859-November, 1860, (Northampton, Mass., 1918), by Lawrence Tyndale Lowrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admission of new states. ([Washington, Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1858]), by William O. Goode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and the union. (Boston, J. Clark & company, [1860]), by Nathan Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A northern plea for the right of secession. By Geo. W. Bassett. (Ottawa [Ill.] Printed at the office of the Free Trader, 1861), by George W. Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, on the right of secession : delivered in the Senate of the United States, Dec. 31, 1860. ([Washington] : Printed by Lemuel Towers, [1861]), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the people of the North. ([Louisville, Ky., Hanna & co., prs., 1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Calhoun revolution: ([Washington, 1860]), by James Rood Doolittle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secession, and its causes, in a letter to Viscount Palmerston, K. G., prime minister of England. (New York, Ross & Tousey, 1861), by Henry Wikoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace offering. ([Frankfort, Ky., 1861]), by William B. Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. M. R. H. Garnett, of Virginia, on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of representatives, January 16, 1861. (Washington, M'Gill & Witherow, printers, 1861), by Muscoe R. H. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• What the North said to the South. ([n.p., 1860?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis. (Baltimore : Kedley, Hedian & Piet, Printers, [1860?]), by Thomas Parkin Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defence of the national Democracy against the attack of Judge Douglas--constitutional rights of the states. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. Delivered in the United States Senate, May 22, 1860. ([Washington, 1860]), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Cliosophic" essays ... (Lancaster, Pa. [Cliosophic society], 1908), by Lancaster Cliosophic society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1865), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union.-- Speech of Hon. Robert Hatton, of Tennessee, in the House of representatives, February 8,1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe, 1861]), by Robert Hatton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis, its responsibilities and perils. ([Washington, W.H. Moore, printer, 1861]), by William Nathan Harrell Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our country: its peril and its deliverance. (Cincinati, At the office of the Danville review, 1861), by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...An appeal to the people of the North. ([Louisville] Ky., 1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relations of states ; speech of the Hon. James Chesnut, jr. of South Carolina / delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1860, on the resolutions submitted by Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Miss., on 1st March, 1860. (Baltimore : Printed by J. Murphy & co., 1860), by James Chesnut (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, delivered in the House of representatives, Jan. 23, 1861. (Washington, Printed by H. Polkinhorn, 1861), by Emerson Etheridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second address to the people of Maryland / by William H. Collins. (Baltimore : Printed by J. Young, 1861), by William H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address, on the duty of the slave states in the present crisis, (Galveston, Printed at the "News" book and job office, 1860), by J. E. Carnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. James H. Thomas, of Tennessee, in the House of representatives, January 17, 1861. (Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe., 1861), by James Houston Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative and letter of William Henry Trescot concerning the negotiations between South Carolina and President Buchanan in December, 1860, contributed by Gaillard Hunt. ([New York, 1908]), by William Henry Trescot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relative territorial status of the North and the South. ([New Orleans?, 1859]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Wm. Kellogg, of Illinois, in favor of the Union. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 8, 1861. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1861]), by William Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. B. F. Wade, of Ohio, on the state of the Union, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Dec. 17, 1860. (Washington, M'Gill & Witherow, printers, 1860), by B. F. Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peaceable Americans of 1860-1861; a study in public opinion, (New York, 1921), by Mary Scrugham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mission of South Carolina to Virginia. ([Baltimore : Press of J. Lucas & Son, 1860?]), by C. G. Memminger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second address to the people of Maryland. (Baltimore, Printed by J. Young, 1861), by William Handy Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. William T. Avery, of Tennessee, in reply to Hon. Emerson Etheridge. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1861]), by William T. Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindication of the northern Democracy. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1859?]), by George Ellis Pugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slaveholding class dominant in the republic. Speech of William H. Seward, at Detroit, October 2, 1856. (Washington, D.C., The Republican Association of Washington, 1857), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West for the Union, now and forever. Speech of Hon. Jno. A Gurley, of Ohio, on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 16th, 1861. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by Jno. A. Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the Union. Speech of Hon. William Howard, of Ohio, in the House of representatives, January 30, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe, 1861]), by William Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the country ... ([Philadelphia?, 1861]), by Charles Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our national union: a thanksgiving discourse, delivered in the First Trinitarian Congregational church, November 29, 1860, by Truman M. Post, D.D. (St. Louis, R.P. Studley and Co., Printers, 1860), by Truman M. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Joseph Lane, of Oregon, on the report of the Peace conference. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 2, 1861. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1861]), by Joseph Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "laws" of Kansas. Speech of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of representatives, June 21, 1856. ([Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856]), by Schuyler Colfax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Democratic state convention : held in Albany, January 31, and February 1, 1861. (Albany [N.Y.] : Comstock & Cassidy, printers, 1861), by Democratic Party (N.Y.). State Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invasion of states. (Washington, G. S. Gideon, printer, [1860]), by Robert Augustus Toombs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, in reply to Hon. P. F. Liddell, of Carrollton, Mississippi. ([Washington?, 1860?]), by L. Q. C. Lamar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cosmopolitan ideas on the Union ... ([n.p., 1861?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four essays on the right and propriety of secession by southern states, by a member of the bar of Richmond. (Richmond, Va., Ritchie & Dunnavant, printers, 1861), by James Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message of Governor A. B. Moore, to the Senate of Alabama, January 14, 1861. Senate--50000 copies. (Montgomery, Ala., Shorter & Reid, State Printers, Advertiser Office, 1861), by Alabama. Governor (1857-1861 : Moore) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the country by Rev. J.H. Thornwell ... (New Orleans, Printed at the "True Witness and Sentinel" Office, 1861), by James Henley Thornwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speakership. Speeches of Hon. George W. Scranton and Hon. James H. Campbell, of Pennsylvania, on the political questions of the day. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 11, 1860. ([Washington, Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1860]), by George Whitefield Scranton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to patriots against fraud and disunion. (Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by Anson Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mercury's course, (Charleston, Steam power press of Walker, Evans and co., 1857), by Isaac W. Hayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. A.R. Boteler, of Virginia, on the organization of the House. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1860. ([Washington] Printed by L. Towers, [1860]), by Alexander Robinson Boteler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. B. F. Hallett, at Charlestown, Mass. Thursday evening, Oct. 14, 1858 ... (Boston, Printed at the office of the Boston post, 1858), by Benjamin Franklin Hallett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of the Hon. John M. Botts, delivered before the Order of United Americans, in Academy of Music, New York : on the 22d February, 1859, being the 127th anniversary of Washington's birthday. (New York : McKee & Co., [1859]), by John Minor Botts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Democracy against the Union, the Constitution, the policy of our fathers, and the rights of free labor. ([Washington, Republican executive congressional committee, 1860]), by Henry Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas, of Illinois, on the state of the Union. Delivered in the Senate, January 3, 1861. (Washington , 1861), by Stephen A. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Senator S.A. Douglas on the invasion of states : and his reply to Mr. Fessenden : delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 23, 1860. ([S.l.] : Printed by L. Towers, [1860?]), by Stephen A. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the clergy and laity of the diocese of New York. ([New York, 1860]), by Horatio Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vincent's semi-annual United States register: a work in which the principal events of every half-year occurring in the United States are recorded, each arranged under the day of its date. This volume contains the events transpiring between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. (Philadelphia, F. Vincent, [c1860]), by Francis Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One in the Government of the United States.: Its Cause, and How It Should Be Met, by Abel D. Streight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Alternative: A Separate Nationality; or, The Africanization of the South, by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg ebook)

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