Joshua Giddings met Abraham Lincoln in 1847 when he was a Congressman from Ohio. During the Lincoln administration, Giddings was the spy chief and was killed in Montreal in 1864.
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When the Whig Party split up, the northern ones became moderate Republicans which were offset by the Radical republicans. In the South, those Whigs became Moderate Democrats.
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British players in the American Civil War were Lord Richard Lyons and Queen Victoria.
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There was a little-known Peace Conference from January to early March 1861, but on January 12 Seward shot it down. Six states left the Union the same day he gave his speech and now there were , with the original one, South Carolina, seven seceded states.
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On February 26, 1861, it was proposed that owners would be compensated for runaway slaves.
--Old Secesh
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