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Lincoln: “Black Republican” and/or Clay-like Whig

As Civil War Daily Gazette has reported Texas delegates signed the ordinance of secession on February 1, 1861. Edwin Waller, the only signer of the Texan Declaration of Independence (1836) who was a delegate to the secession convention, was honored … Continue reading

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