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Page 65 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
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| Title | The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Volume 19 of Governor Thomas H. Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War, George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Johns Hopkins University |
| Editor | John Martin Vincent |
| Contributors | Herbert Baxter Adams, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University. Department of History, Johns Hopkins University. Department of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University. Dept. of Political Science |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 131 pages |
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