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Wallace, James, 1810-1877 The Amendment of the federal Constitution : an Address Before the Christian Association for National Reformation, of Southern Illinois by James Wallace, in Rev. S. Wylie's Church, Eden, November 8, 1864.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01265.38 Author/Creator: Wallace, James, 1810-1877 Place Written: St. Louis, Missouri Type: Pamphlet Date: 1865 Pagination: 15 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Argues that the constitution needs to be amended "so as to become the fundamental law of a christian republican government." States that when the Southern states seceeded from the Union, they were not only rejecting the authority of the Constitution, but were rejecting the authority of God.

Wallace, James, 1810-1877

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