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Causes of the Civil War
Links
- Party platforms:
- Secession documents:
- State Declarations of Causes for Secession
- Ordinances of Secession
- South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
- Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
- Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
- First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
- Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
- State and local resolutions and correspondence:
- Compromise proposals:
- Abraham Lincoln's speeches and letters:
- Other political speeches and correspondence:
- Editorial commentary:
- "The Question of the Hour," by James Russell Lowell
- Charleston Mercury editorial of February 28, 1860
- Charleston Mercury editorial of October 11, 1860
- Nashville Republican Banner editorial of January 25, 1861
- Washington (Arkansas) Telegraph editorial of January 13, 1865
- New Orleans Daily Picayune editorial of November 4, 1860
- Selected quotes from the period
- Selected statistics on slavery
- Postwar commentary
