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This article focuses on how public sentiment in the North was not entirely with Lincoln, and that as the "unconstitutional" war dragged on, they would northerners would become less supportive of fighting the South.

This article focuses on the debt the North is accruing by waging war on the South. It implies that the enormous expenditures will cause the people of the North to question the validity of the war, and thus peace may come about more quickly.

This article was published in October of 1862 by the Register, and focuses primarily how on the Emancipation Proclamation will work to further divide the North and drive the Border States to the side of the Confederacy.

In a sweeping victory, the Democrats won 93 out of 118 seats in the North Carolina General Assembly in the 1898 election. They campaigned heavily on the rhetoric of White Supremacy, promising to redeem the state from "negro domination." With an…

The secession flag that was flown in NC, when it announced leaving the Union on May 20, 1861.

"I Make Them Dance Or I Crush Them"

Chairman F.M. Simmons
Issues a Patriotic and Able Address, Summing
Up the Issues, and Appealing Elo-
Quently to the White Voters
To Redeem the State

TO THE VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA:

The most memorable campaign ever waged in North Carolina…

CHAPTER CLXXI. AN ACT TO DIVIDE NORTH CAROLINA INTO EIGHT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That for the purpose of selecting representatives in the congress of the United States, the state of North…