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Speech of Hon. J.Z. Goodrich, of Mass., delivered in the Peace Convention in Washington, February, 1861.
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Year: 1864, 1864
Member of: Speeches
Contributors: Goodrich, John Z. (John Zacheus) 1804-1885, J.E. Farwell & Co.
Publisher: J.E. Farwell and Company
Description: This is the story of the February 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed. Most of America's great statesmen came together at the historic Willard Hotel in a desperate attempt to stave off Civil War. Participants included Lincoln himself. Seven southern states had already seceded,… more
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