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THE NEGRO IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

CHAPTER XIV.

DEFINITION OF THE WAR ISSUE.

Increase of Slave Population in Slave-holding States from 1850-1860.--Products of Slave Labor.--Basis of Southern Representation.--Six Seceding States organize a New Government.--Constitution of the Confederate Government.--Speech by Alexander H. Stephens.--Mr. Lincoln in Favor of Gradual Emancipation.--He is elected President of the United States.--The Issue of the War between the States 228

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