1860-1862 – Four speeches by John A. Bingham, Congressman from Ohio, regarding the political debate as to whether or not the Southern States had the right to secede from the Union
Washington, DC. Pamphlet. John Armor Bingham was closely aligned with the Radical Republicans, although some historians maintain that his positions fell somewhat in between their and the more moderate Unionists. He was active in the abolition movement and maintained that it was the South who manipulated the Constitution to justify..... More