Alexander Logan - The Complete Works of John Alexander Logan

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THE GREAT CONSPIRACY

In the preparation of this work it has been the writer's aim to present in it, with historical accuracy, authentic facts; to be fair and impartial in grouping them; and to be true and just in the conclusions necessarily drawn from them. While thus striving to be accurate, fair, and just, he has not thought it his duty to mince words, nor to refrain from "calling things by their right names;" neither has he sought to curry favor, in any quarter, by fulsome adulation on the one side, nor undue denunciation on the other, either of the living, or of the dead. But, while tracing the history of the Great Conspiracy, from its obscure birth in the brooding brains of a few ambitious men of the earliest days of our Republic, through the subsequent years of its devolution, down to the evil days of Nullification, and to the bitter and bloody period of armed Rebellion, or contemplating it in its still more recent and, perhaps, more sinister development, of to-day, he has conscientiously dealt with it, throughout, in the clear and penetrating light of the voluminous records so readily accessible at the seat of our National Government. So far as was practicable, he has endeavored to allow the chief characters in that Conspiracyas well as the Union leaders, who, whether in Executive, Legislative, or Military service, devoted their best abilities and energies to its suppressionto speak for themselves, and thus while securing their own proper places in history, by a process of self-adjustment as it were, themselves to write down that history in their own language. If then there be found within these covers aught which may seem harsh to those directly or indirectly, nearly or remotely, connected with that Conspiracy, he may not unfairly exclaim: "Thou canst not say I did it." If he knows his own heart, the writer can truly declare, with his hand upon it, that it bears neither hatred, malice, nor uncharitableness, to those who, misled by the cunning secrecy of the Conspirators, and without an inkling or even a suspicion of their fell purposes, went manfully into the field, with a courage worthy of a better cause, and for four years of bloody conflict, believing that their cause was just, fought the armies of the Union, in a mad effort to destroy the best government yet devised by man upon this planet. And, perhaps, none can better understand than he, how hard, how very hard, it must be for men of strong nature and intense feeling, after taking a mistaken stand, and especially after carrying their conviction to the cannon's mouth, to acknowledge their error before the world. Hence, while he has endeavored truly to depictor to let those who made history at the time help him to depictthe enormity of the offence of the armed Rebellion and of the heresies and plottings of certain Southern leaders precipitating it, yet not one word will be found, herein, condemnatory of those who, with manly candor, soldierly courage, and true patriotism, acknowledged that error when the ultimate arbitrament of the sword had decided against them. On the contrary, to all such as accept, in good faith, the results of the war of the Rebellion, the writer heartily holds out the hand of forgiveness for the past, and good fellowship for the future.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

April 15, 1886.

AFRICAN SLAVERY IN AMERICA IN 1620CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND IN 1699GEORGIAN ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY IN 1775JEFFERSON AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCESLAVERY A SOURCE OF WEAKNESS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WARTHE SESSION BY VIRGINIA OF THE GREAT NORTH-WESTTHEORDINANCE OF 1784 AND ITS FAILURETHE ORDINANCE OF 1787 AND ITS ADOPTIONTHE GERM OF SLAVERY AGITATION PLANTEDTHE QUESTION IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONSUBTERFUGES OF THE OLD CONSTITUTIONTHE BULLDOZING OF THE FATHERSTHE FIRST FEDERAL CONGRESS, 1789CONDITIONS OF TERRITORIAL CESSIONS FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, 1789-1802THE "COLONY OF LOUISIANA" (MISSISSIPPI VALLEY) PURCHASE OF 1803THE TREATYCONDITIONS TOUCHING SLAVERYTHE COTTON INDUSTRY REVOLUTIONIZEDRAPID POPULATING OF THE GREAT VALLEY, BY SLAVEHOLDERS AND SLAVESJEFFERSON'S APPARENT INCONSISTENCY EXPLAINEDTHE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADEMULTIPLICATION OF SLAVESLOUISIANA ADMITTED, 1812, AS A STATETHE TERRITORY OF MISSOURITHE MISSOURI STRUGGLE (1818-1820) IN A NUTSHELL THE "MISSOURI COMPROMISE"

CHIEF CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONOUR INDEPENDENCE, INDUSTRIAL AS WELL AS POLITICALFAILURE OF THE CONFEDERATION DUE TO LACK OF INDUSTRIAL PROTECTIONMADISON'S TARIFF ACT OF 1789HAMILTON'S TARIFF OF 1790SOUTHERN STATESMEN AND SOUTHERN VOTES FOR EARLY TARIFFSWASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON ON "PROTECTION "EMBARGO OF 1807-8WAR OF 1812-15CONSEQUENT INCREASE OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURESBROUGHAM'S PLANRUIN THREATENED BY GLUT OF BRITISH GOODSTARIFF ACT OF 1816CALHOUN'S DEFENSE OF "PROTECTION"NEW ENGLAND AGAINST THAT ACTTHE SOUTH SECURES ITS PASSAGETHE PROTECTIVE TARIFF ACTS OF 1824 AND 1828SUBSEQUENT PROSPERITY IN FREE STATESTHE BLIGHT OF SLAVERYBIRTH OF THE FREE TRADE HERESY IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1797SIMULTANEOUS BIRTH OF THE HERESY OF STATE RIGHTSKENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS OF 1798VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS OF 1799JEFFERSON'S REAL PURPOSE IN FORMULATING THEMACTIVITY OF THE FEW SOUTHERN FREE TRADERSPLAUSIBLE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "PROTECTION"INGENIOUS METHODS OF "FIRING THE SOUTHERN HEART"SOUTHERN DISCONTENT WITH TARIFF OF 1824INFLAMMATORY UTTERANCESARMED RESISTANCE URGED TO TARIFF OF 1828WALTERBOROUGH ANTI-PROTECTIVE TARIFF ADDRESSFREE TRADE AND NULLIFICATION ADVOCACY APPEARS IN CONGRESSTHE HAYNE-WEBSTER DEBATEMODIFIED PROTECTIVE TARIFF OF 1832SOUTH CAROLINA'S NULLIFICATION ORDINANCEHAYNE ELECTED GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINAHERESY OF "PARAMOUNT ALLEGIANCE TO THE STATE"SOUTH CAROLINA ARMS HERSELFPRESIDENT JACKSON STAMPS OUT SOUTHERN TREASONCLAY'S COMPROMISE TARIFF OF 1833CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S SOLEMN WARNINGJACKSON'S FORECAST

"EMANCIPATION" IN NORTHERN AND MIDDLE STATESVIRGINIA'S UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTCESSION OF THE FLORIDAS, 1819BALANCE OF POWERADMISSION OF ARKANSAS,1836SOUTHERN SLAVE HOLDERS' COLONIZATION OF TEXASTEXAN INDEPENDENCE, 1837CALHOUN'S SECOND AND GREAT CONSPIRACYDETERMINATION BEFORE 1839 TO SECEDEPROTECTIVE TARIFF FEATURES AGAIN THE PRETEXTCALHOUN, IN 1841, ASKING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR AIDNORTHERN OPPOSITION TO ACQUISITION OF TEXASRATIONALE OF THE LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA ACQUISITIONSPROPOSED EXTENSION OF SLAVERY LIMITSWEBSTER WARNS THE SOUTHDISASTERS FOLLOWING COMPROMISE TARIFF OF 1833INDUSTRIAL RUIN OF 1840ELECTION AND DEATH OF HARRISONPROTECTIVE TARIFF OF 1842POLK'S CAMPAIGN OF 1844CLAY'S BLUNDER AND POLK'S CRIMESOUTHERN TREACHERYTHE NORTH HOODWINKEDPOLK ELECTED BY ABOLITION VOTESLAVE-HOLDING TEXAS UNDER A SHAM "COMPROMISE"WAR WITH MEXICOFREE-TRADE TARIFF OF 1846WILMOT PROVISOTREATY OF GUADALUPEHIDALGOSLAVERY CONTEST IN CONGRESS STILL GROWINGCOMPROMISE OF 1850A LULLFUGITIVE SLAVE LAWNEBRASKA BILL OF 1852-3KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL, 1853-4, REPORTEDPARLIAMENTARY "JUGGLERY"THE TRIUMPH OF SLAVERY, IN CONGRESSBLEEDING KANSASTOPEKA CONSTITUTION, 1855KANSAS LEGISLATURE DISPERSED, 1856, BY UNITED STATES TROOPSLECOMPTON CONSTITUTION OF 1857FRAUDULENT TRIUMPH OF SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONITS SUBSEQUENT DEFEATELECTION OF BUCHANAN, 1856KANSAS ADMITTEDMISERY AND RUIN CAUSED BY FREE-TRADE TARIFF OF 1846FILLMORE AND BUCHANAN TESTIFY