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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Proposed Reorganization of Secessia

Several Senators are now engaged in maturing legislation, by which those States which have set themselves in rebellion against the General Government will be deprived of the governments which have acted in defiance of the Constitution, and be reorganized as territories, that the provisions of the Constitution may be fully and lawfully carried into effect.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 2

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