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The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5,
by Various
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Title: The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Author: Various
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Language: English
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THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.
VOL. II.--NOVEMBER, 1862.--NO. V.
THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION.
No other nation was ever convulsed by an internal struggle so tremendous as that which now rends our own unhappy country. No mere rebellion has ever before spread its calamitous effects so widely, beyond the scene of its immediate horrors. Just in proportion to the magnitude of the evils it has produced, is the enormity of the crime involved, on one side or the other; and good men may well feel solicitous to know where rests the burden of this awful responsibility.
The long train of preparatory events prece