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"I Make Them Dance Or I Crush Them"

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

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…

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.

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 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 highlights the tension between Lincoln's administration and other foreign powers abroad.

Fortieth Congress of the United States of America;

At the third Session, Begun and held at the city of Washington, on Monday, the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

A Resolution Proposing an amendment to the…

AMENDMENT XIV

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall…

This was a reoccurring advertisement that could be found in several of North Carolina's newspapers in the first half of 1862. It states the desire to raise six companies, and offers the benefit of being able to elect field officers.