Border-States

The Western Border-States are noted for the production of a large and hardy race.

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Mr. Crittenden, the leader of the loyal Border-States men in Congress, was at this time especially eloquent on this latter view of the

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What he sought to impress upon them was, that an immediate decision by the Border-States to adopt, and in due time carry out, with the financial help of the General Government, a policy of gradual Emancipation, would simultaneously solve the two intimately-blended problems of Slavery-destruction and

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Border-States men, that this question of Slavery-abolition was reaching

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So far as the Border-States are concerned, it is a matter that concerns them alone.

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And now, in this second appeal of his to the Border-States men, to patriotically close with the proposal embraced in that.

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In spite of the loyal Border-States men's bitter opposition, however, the Resolution endorsing that policy as a War Measure, and declaring the

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Congress from the Border-States, was, as we have seen, in vain.

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Border-States would unite, at least enough of them to pass the

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Of course, in Border-States, bound to the South by ties of lineage and intermarriage and politics and business association, the feeling could not be the same as elsewhere.

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