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LOGIC OF HISTORY.

FIVE HUNDRED POLITICAL TEXTS: 1

BEING

CONCENTRATED EXTRACTS OF ABOLITIONISM;

ALSO, RESULTS OF

SLAVERY AGITATION AND EMANCIPATION;

TOGETHER WITH SUNDRY CHAPTERS ON

DESPOTISM, USURPATIONS AND FRAUDS.

By S. D. CARPENTER,

EDITOR OF THE "WISCONSIN PATRIOT."

SECOND EDITION.

MADISON, WIS., 1864 :

S. D. CARPENTER, PUBLISHER.

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A PREFACE to a book is often synonymous such as to be as personally offensive as possible to

all conservatives, by the use approbious epithets, such as "Traitor"-"Copperhead," &c. With this work in his possession, no Democrat need fear these epithets, for if he will compel his assailant to endure the infliction to read or listen to a few choice paragraphs herein, the

For fifteen years I have been selecting and preserving in scrap book form, the within evidences of republican guilt, until I had created quite a "library" of scrap books. I was aware years ago that these scraps would one day become valuable. I was offered, during the political canvass of 1863, a large sum for my first volume of Scraps, and it occurred to me that if one of my many volumes was prized so highly, there were few that would not esteem it a privilege to pay $1.50 for the cream of them all.

with excuses, and I will render mine as briefly as possible. I have compiled this work, not with a view to win literary fame, though perhaps few, who have acquired the knowledge by experience, will deny me at least a modest claim to considerable research and laborious application; for, in truth I could have pro-insult will hardly be repeated; for, the followduced a volume of more than double the pro- ing pages constitute a bomb-proof battery-an portions of this, with less labor and pains- "iron clad" torpedo-that will be dangerous to taking, had I reduced it to a commentary on trifle with. the subjects which it embraces. But, for the purposes intended, it was necessary to present the language employed by those who are herein represented. This I have done as tersely as possible, without perverting the sentiments uttered. The task has been an herculean one. The difficulty has not been what to insert, but what to leave out, lest I should compile a volume of too ponderous proportions, for it would have been much easier to have compiled 2,000 pages, without diminishing the interest. My whole aim has been to present to the conservatives of the country a useful and convenient digest of the sayings and doings of the Northern Disunionists for the last sixty-five years, together with a synopsis of the slavery agitation and results of emancipation, from the halcyon days of Rome down to the present timeembracing a statistical, didactic and editorial compendium of that restless spirit of meddling agitation that has ruined the fairest governments on earth. I have presented the evidence of Northern disunion and treason, in a convenient and tangible form, that the same may be demonstrated to the people who now suffer in consequence of these causes:

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1st. By Editors through the press. 2d. By public speakers from the rostrum. 3d. By citizens, among the masses-in the school house and other gatherings, and in private discussions. The conduct of this war, from the highest official to the lowest parasite of power, has been

All the libraries in the "Union as it was," might be searched in vain for the contents of this book. The same might be found mostly in the newspaper files of the last seventy years, but it would require a practiced antiquarian years of research to hunt up and codify these extracts from original sources, at an expense wholly inadequate to any probable remuneration. Possessing these extraordinary facilities, I have compiled this work both from the dictates of duty and hope of reward. I do not warrant it free from errors; for, in addition to my other duties of publishing a Daily and Weekly Newspaper, &c., I have without assistance, copied, codified and arranged the work each evening, as needed for the printers the next day, nor have I been able to re-examine a single sheet of "copy," previous to its

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