The Great Conspiracy

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"The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History" is a memoir work by a general in the Union Army, John Alexander Logan. In his book Logan sought to demonstrate that secession and the Civil War were the result of a long-contemplated "conspiracy" to which various Southern politicians had been party since the Nullification Crisis.
 

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Preface Chapter I A Preliminary Retrospect Chapter II Protection and Free Trade
Growth of the Slavery Question
Popular Sovereignty
The Presidential Contest of 1860The Crisis Approaching
The Great Conspiracy Maturing
Secession Arming
The Rejected Olive Branch
Slaverys Setting and Freedoms Dawn
Freedom Proclaimed to
Historical Review
Lincolns Troubles and Temptations
The Armed Negro
Freedoms Sun Still Rising
Thirteenth Amendment in the Senate
Treason in the Northern Camps
The Fire in the Rear

The Wardrum On to Washington
The Causes of Secession
Copperheadism vs Union Democracy
The Storm of Battle
The Colored Contraband
Freedoms Early Dawn
Compensated Gradual Emancipation
Borderstate Opposition
Thirteenth Amendment Defeated in the House
Slavery Doomed at the Polls
Freedom at Last Assured
Lincolns Second Inauguration
Collapse of the Armed Conspiracy
Assassination
What Next?

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