. A military genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland ("the great unrecognized member of Lincoln's cabinet.") . CHAPTER III. RISE OF THE SECESSION MOVEMENT—THE CAPITAL INDANGER—MISS CARROLLS LITERARY LABORS FOR THECAUSE OF THE UNION—TESTIMONIALS FROM EMINENT MEN. On the election of Mr. Lincoln, in i860, the safety ofthe Union was felt to be in peril and its perpetuity to de-pend on the action of the border slave States, and, fromher geographical position, especially on Maryland. In the cotton States the Breckenridge party had con-ducted the canvass on the avowed position that the elec-ti
. A military genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland ("the great unrecognized member of Lincoln's cabinet.") . CHAPTER III. RISE OF THE SECESSION MOVEMENT—THE CAPITAL INDANGER—MISS CARROLLS LITERARY LABORS FOR THECAUSE OF THE UNION—TESTIMONIALS FROM EMINENT MEN. On the election of Mr. Lincoln, in i860, the safety ofthe Union was felt to be in peril and its perpetuity to de-pend on the action of the border slave States, and, fromher geographical position, especially on Maryland. In the cotton States the Breckenridge party had con-ducted the canvass on the avowed position that the elec-tion of a sectional President—as they were pleased to char-acterize Mr. Lincoln—would be a virtual dissolution of the compact of the Union ; whereupon it would become theduty of all the Southern States to assemble in sovereignconvention for the purpose of considering the questionof their separate independence. In Maryland the Breckenridge electors assumed the sameposition, and as the Legislature was under the control ofthat party, it was understood that could it assemble theywould at once provide for a c
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