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...invited to join the Southern Congress in secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Civil War Reporter | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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