This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...It seemed to be taken for granted on all sides that, if the Southern States insisted upon cutting loose from the Union, nothing could be done but to let them go. It is true there was talk enough about swords and blood; but the wars were expected to turn upon questions of boundary and the like, after dissolution, not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...It seemed to be taken for granted on all sides that, if the Southern States insisted upon cutting loose from the Union, nothing could be done but to let them go. It is true there was talk enough about swords and blood; but the wars were expected to turn upon questions of boundary and the like, after dissolution, not upon the right of states to go out. Even such a man as John Quincy Adams, not only an anti-slavery man but a statesman always inclining to strong measures, approved of the compromise as " all that could be effected under the present Constitution, and from extreme unwillingness to put the Union at hazard;" and then wrote in addition: "But perhaps it would have been a wiser as well as a bolder course to have persisted in the restriction upon Missouri, till it should have terminated in a convention of the states to revise and amend the Constitution. This would have produced a new Union of thirteen or fourteen states unpolluted with slavery, with a great and glorious object to effect, --namely, that of rallying to their standard the other states by the universal emancipation of their slaves. If the Union must be dissolved, slavery is precisely the question upon which it ought to break." Thus even this patriotic statesman thought rather of separating in order to meet again in a purer condition of existence--a remarkably fantastic plan--than of denying the right of secession, and of maintaining by a vigorous exertion of power the government of which he was a leading member, and the Union of which his father had been one of the principal founders. It must be admitted also that, while the North was superior to the South in population and means at that period, yet the disproportion was not yet large enough to make the maintenance of th...
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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Library sticker on front cover. Quarto, clothbound. Title, author, volume, series and publisher in gold on spine. Series in gold on cover, with decorative border at top. Backstrip frayed at ends. Corners bumped. Top edge gilt. Back cover loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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Volume I only. American Statesmen Series. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles. Top page edges are gilt. Good Plus, slight wear to top and bottom of backstrips. Former owner signature on front end paper. (loc 927/1)
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Book. 12mo; VG; pp 383+424; dark burgundy spines with gilt text; American Statesmen series; no jackets; 2 volumes; full leather bindings; raised bands with gilt rules to spines; exteriors show mild wear; strong, intact panels; text blocks have slight toning to exterior fore and tail edges; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; clean interiors. NOTE: Shelved in Room X, atop one of the bookcases. 1335283. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Two Volumes. American Statesmen Series. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles. Top page edges are gilt. Very good, slight wear to top and bottom of backstrips. Former owner ex-libris sticker on front end paper. (loc 927/1)
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Very Good. Two Vols. Name of previous owner on front endpaper of Vol. I. Front endpaper missing on Vol. II. Modest wear to cloth on each at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, both vols. are tight and in very good condition.
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Fair to good. 383 & 424, 2 vols., index, boards and spine scuffed and stained, ink name and address inside front flyleaves, small stains to a few pages.
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