Border-State

Border-State Conventions are projected, and well-meaning governors have been arranging interviews or conducting correspondence with governors who talked of Southern rights, and undertook to say what their States would or would not permit the United States Government to do.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

Border-State cities, stretching from Philadelphia to Leavenworth, containing nine hundred thousand; thus _massing a free population of one million five hundred thousand in border cities that overlooked the land of despotism_.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Surrounded by all sorts of conflicting claims, by traitors, by half-hearted, timid men, by Border-State men and Free-State men,

A Sermon on the Services and Death of Abraham Lincoln 1865

James Speed, to whom Mr. Lincoln had been thus drawn, was a highly respectable lawyer, and was altogether a fit man to succeed Mr. Bates as the Border-State member of the Cabinet.

Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

Freed thus from what he may have regarded as the obligations of his Border-State policy and upheld by the great popular majority which he had received in the election, the President warmly recommended to Congress the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

As in the Senate, the Border-State men opposed the measure, but were overborne by the popular opinion which nearly consolidated the Republican vote of the North in favor of it.

Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

As the bill was finally perfected, Mr. Chandler and his colleague Mr. Howard voted against it, as did also Mr. Browning of Illinois and the Border-State

Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

Union-preservation, in the best possible manner for the pockets and feelings of the Border-State Slave-holder, and for the other interests of both Border-State Slave-holder and Slave.

The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 John Alexander Logan 1856

It was to ward this off, if possible, that he had met and appealed to the Border-State Representatives.

The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 John Alexander Logan 1856

Practically, the Border-State men were a unit against Mr. Lincoln's proposition, and against its fair consideration by their people.

The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 John Alexander Logan 1856