The True Story of the Barons of the South Or the Rationale of the American Con
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This was done on a large scale. Upwards of one hundred and fifteen thousand arms of the latest and most improved pattern were transferred from the Springfield and Watervliet arsenals to different arsenals in the slave States, where they have been seized by the rebels. And a quarter of a million percussion muskets were sold to various slave States, at two dollars and a half a musket, when they were worth, it is said, on an average, twelve dollars. Large quantities of cannon, mortars, powder, bal...l, and shell received the same direction. " Finally, " the national Treasury, which so recently had been prosperous beyond example, was disorganized and plundered to the verge of bankruptcy. Upwards of six millions are supposed to have been stolen, 8 170 THE REBELLION OF THE BARONS. and much of this treasure doubtless went to help the work of rebellion. " * Meantime, in the election of 1860, two millions of American freemen recorded their verdict against any further toleration of the slave despotism.
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