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Excerpt from A History of the Civil War in the United States, Vol. 1: With a Preliminary View of Its Causes, and Biographical Sketches of Its Heroes
II. The Advocacy of Slavery, both as already existing in the Southern States, and as proposed in the new terri tories of the Federal Union.
III. The Doctrine of State Sovereignty and Supremacy, in Opposition to the policy of Federal Centralization and Power.
In discussing the various causes which led to the Southern Rebellion, we will treat of them as comprised under these three general topics, and in the order of their historical sequence.
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