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Identifier: sixthousandyears03sand (find matches)
Title: Six thousand years of history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia : E.R. DuMont
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut off, and more active help waslooked for. Commissioners were sent tO London andParis, with no result, and a more formidable missionwas later sent, which will be treated upon fully in anotherplace. One of Mr. Davis Southern critics complainsthat his Cabinet was composed of figureheads, and thathe wanted to control everything. He is blamed for notseizing all the cotton in the South, fixing a certain pricefor it, and then rushing it abroad before the blockadewas established. A fleet of iron merchantmen wasofTered the Confederacy by a foreign firm on easy terms,but was not accepted until it was too late to make thetransfer. The Confederacy issued bonds, which for atime sold at a good figure, but finally recourse was had topaper money, which depreciated constantly as the warwent on. It is impossible here to> give the details ofConfederate legislation. As the war went on, Mr. Davisbecame practical dictator, and he, as also the Confed-erate Congress, was as roundly abused by many men in
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GRANT IN THE WEST 249 the South for acts of usurpation, as was the Northbefore the war began. This is the case in all wars ofthis kind. States Rights, on which the Confederacywas constructed, proved as bad a condition in this waras it had during the Revolution. If the Confederacyhad succeeded it could not have been maintained on theoriginal basis. Centralized control is essential to anylarge Nation. Before the blockade became effective, supplies andmunitions of war were rushed in. The blockade wasnever complete, for blockade runners from Nassau andthe Bermudas got in and out during the war, bringingin guns and powder in exchange for cotton. The con-traband trade was risky and often disastrous, but whereone voyage paid the cost of a ship, the temptation wasgreater than the risk. The grand strategy of the w^ar developed slowly,and many mistakes were made on both sides. The Con-federates plan was to hold the Mississippi, stretch achain of forts and camps from the Mississippi to theAllegh

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