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The Great Conspiracy

by John A. Logan

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter XXXIII — What Next?
  3. 3Chapter I — A Preliminary Retrospect
  4. 4Chapter II — Protection and Free Trade
  5. 5Chapter III — Growth of the Slavery Question
  6. 6Chapter IV — Popular Sovereignty
  7. 7Chapter V — The Presidential Contest of 1860 — The Crisis Approaching
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Great Conspiracy Maturing
  9. 9Chapter VII — Secession Arming
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Rejected Olive Branch
  11. 11Chapter IX — Slavery’s Setting, and Freedom’s Dawn
  12. 12Chapter X — The War-Drum “On to Washington”
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Causes of Secession
  14. 14Chapter XII — Copperheadism vs. Union Democracy
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Storm of Battle
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Colored Contraband
  17. 17Chapter XV — Freedom’s Early Dawn
  18. 18Chapter XVI — “Compensated Gradual Emancipation”
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Border-State Opposition
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Freedom Proclaimed to All
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Historical Review
  22. 22Chapter XX — Lincoln’s Troubles and Temptations
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Armed Negro
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Freedom’s Sun Still Rising
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — “Thirteenth Amendment” in the Senate
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Treason in the Northern Camps
  27. 27Chapter XXV — “The Fire in the Rear”
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — “Thirteenth Amendment” Defeated in the House
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Slavery Doomed at the Polls
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Freedom at Last Assured
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Lincoln’s Second Inauguration
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Collapse of the Armed Conspiracy
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Assassination!
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Turning Back the Hands!
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — What Next?

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