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Collection Reference Number GLC08786
From Archive Folder Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers 
Title The Crisis. [Vol. 3, no. 2 (February 4, 1863)]
Date 4 February 1863
Author Medary, S. (Samuel) (1801-1864)  
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Discussing the military service of African Americans, states "The very act of arming them, of equalizing us with them ... is a lawless, revolutionary act, subversive of all these distinctions of races, which have saved us Anglo-Saxons, Celts, and Teutons of the North from the amalgamation and fraternity of the Latin races of the Southern part of this continent, and which there have been destructive to both." Contains numerous letters to the editor. Includes various articles covering local and national politics, as well as Civil War events. Includes several articles discussing Clement Laird Vallandigham, a United States Representative from Ohio. Contains a report on the uselessness of military chaplains.
Subjects Civil War  African American History  African American Troops  Latin and South America  Military History  Politics  Copperheads  Religion  Union Forces  
People Medary, Samuel (1801-1864)  Vallandigham, Clement L. (Clement Laird) (1820-1871)  
Place written Columbus, Ohio
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Religion
Sub-collection American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Additional Information Medary served as the territorial Governor of Minnesota 1857-1858 and of Kansas 1858-1860.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945