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Title: Memorial Day annual, 1912 : the causes and outbreak of the War between the States, 1861-1865 ; for use as a source book of contemporary authorities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Public Instruction Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Subjects: Secession
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : (Richmond Press, Inc.)
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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ation of AmericanIndependence, that Governments derive their just power fromthe consent of the governed, is sound and just; and that if theSLAVE States, the cotton States, or the gulf States only, CHOOSE TO FORM AN INDEPENDENT NATION THEY HAVE A CLEARMORAL RIGHT TO DO SO. WHENEVER IT SHALL BE CLEAR THATTHE GREAT BODY OF SOUTHERN PEOPLE HAVE BECOME CONCLU-SIVELY ALIENATED FROM THE UnION, AND ANXIOUS TO ESCAPEFROM IT, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO FORWARD THEIR VIEWS. The Tribune, February 23, 1861. Greeley (1811-1872), after a youth of poverty and struggle, entered journalismand, in 1841, established the New York Daily Tribune. Through this paperhe acquired great reputation and influence and came in time to rank as theleader of one branch of abolitionists. His hostility to the South and hisdetermination to push the war to the end earned for him the hatred of theconquered country. For this he atoned in large measure during Reconstruc-tion by his generous advocacy of amnesty and reconciliation.
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JOHN LETCHER. MEMORIAL DAY ANNUAL. 27 GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA IN 1861. Douglas S. Freeman. ToHN Letcher, of Rockbridge, Governor^^^. Robert L. Montague,^ of Middlesex, Lieutenant-Governor. Supreme Court. William Daniel, of Lynchburg.R. C. L. MoNCURE, of Stafford.Wm. Robertson, of Albemarle.John J. Allen, of Botetourt.^^s.George H. Lee, of Harrison. 23john Letcher, the first of Virginias two war governors, was an unusualand interesting figure. Born in Lexington, March 29, 1813, he was forcedto earn a livelihood while still a boy and served for some years as a tailor.He was extremely ambitious, however, ana by hard study and economy wasable to enter Washington College in 1834. In a few years he began thepractice of law and soon became editor of the Valley Star. Drifting intopolitics, he rose rapidly as a staunch Democrat and was elected to Congressin 1851. For eight years he remained in the House and earned for himselfthe title Honest John. In 1859 he was nominated on the Democraticticke

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