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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ports to promote or fosterany branch of Industry. In all new territory the Institution of negro slavery, asIt now exists In the Confederate States, shall be recognizedand protected by Congress and by the Territorial govern-ment ; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate Statesand Territories shall have the right to take to such Terri-tory any slaves lawfully held by them In any of the Statesor Territories of the Confederate States. It denied the right of secession by forbidding the Statesto enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation. It made the term of president and vice-president six yearswithout the privilege of re-election. The Confederate Congress might by law, grant tothe principal officer in each of the Executive Depart-ments a seat upon the floor of either House, with the priv-ilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his depart-ment. These were the differences between the Permanent Con-stitution of the Confederacy and the Constitution of theUnited States. T
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O aSo t* 1 Offic ^J ■if. CONFEDERACY OR NATION 213 It may easily be seen that in forming this Confederacy, theSouth incorporated clauses and provisions which had beenfor years matters of dispute and contention between Southand North. It is also clear that these provisions—recog-nizing State sovereignty; slavery, and the slave trade; andforbidding protective tariffs—were the very provisions whichfor many years the North had associated with slavery: theywere not associated with the idea of nationality. Theypointed clearly, as the South Carolina Address of i860declares, to a people having different pursuits and institu-tions from those of the North. That the South had been drifting for years toward theformation of a Slaveholding Confederacy is now plain fromthe records, and it is equally plain that at the North publicsentiment, during the same time, had been developing Intothe conception and conviction that the United States is aNation. The actual formation of a Slaveholding Confed

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