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21 " lest "
― James M. McPherson , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
22 " the slaves in the seven cotton states of the lower South had received in the form of food, clothing, and shelter only 22 percent of the income produced by the plantations and farms on which they worked. "
23 " conservative because “he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be.”2 "
24 " The Civil War started out as one kind of conflict and ended as something quite different. "
25 " sternly, "
26 " The South was rebelling “not in the interest of general humanity, but of a domestic despotism. … Their motto is not liberty, but slavery. "
27 " the right of revolution, is never a legal right. … At most, it is but a moral right, when exercised for a morally justifiable cause. When exercised without such a cause revolution is no right, but simply a wicked exercise of physical power.”14 "
28 " He had been willing to risk war rather than let the nation perish. "
29 " Know-Nothings, "
30 " bestride "