Secession and Slavery

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Excerpt from Secession and Slavery: Or, the Effect of Secession on the Relation of the United States to the Seceded States and to Slavery Therein, Considered as a Question of Constitutional Law, Chiefly Under the Authority of Decisions of the Supreme Court, Embracing Also a Review Ok the Pr This pamphlet is divided into six chapters, as follows: Chap. I. Historical Sketch. II. The Direct Consequences resulting from the Act of Secession. III. Some Radical Views considered. IV. The Effect of Contract between the seceded States returning, and the United States. V. The Emancipation Proclamation. VI. Concluding Summary, also, Postscript on the President's Plan of Reconstruction. As originally written, the pamphlet contained also a chapter entitled, "The Consequences resulting from the War which Secession creates." But finding that the insertion of this chapter would make the pamphlet too long, while the chapter itself was too short for an adequate discussion of its subject, I determined to omit it, and, whether it will be hereafter given to the public in an enlarged form or not, the public will learn in due time. The pamphlet here presented embodies a discussion of the question, which, more than any other, perplexes, at the present moment, the people of this country. Will the people read? Will they reflect? Will they hear a voice which speaks the language of the law, and not the language of the politician? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.