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Title: The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Burgess, John William, 1844-1931
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Constitutional history
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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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hed the Governor in the commissionof these acts from a common robber, except that theywere executed by virtue of the abuse of his public pow-ers, and for what he considered to be the advantage ofthe community over which he governed. On the 26thhe proceeded to call the Legislature for the purpose ofeffecting the passage of a secession ordinance. President Lincoln accepted these movements as put-ting the people of North Carolina in an attitude of„ „, , rebellion to the Government of the United T h 6 Block- adeprociama- States, and, on the 27th, he issued a proc-lamation, supplementary to that of April19th blockading the ports of the seven States inwhich conventions had passed secession ordinances, andextended this inhibition of commerce to the ports ofVirginia and North Carolina. The Presidents proclamation of the 19th had beendirectly evoked by an order of the Confederate Govern-ment of the 17th proposing to use these ports for thefitting out and commissioning of privateers to prey
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