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23 I have been reading "the Partisan Leader" a work that has been laying about our cabin quarters. It professes to have been written a dozen or more years since and is curiously prophetic. It is nothing more than a compilation of the arguments used by "States Rights men" and a defense for forcibly opposing the U.S. Government -- an apology for disunion. It is harmless I presume or it would not be allowed publication. The writer is