The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volum 1D. Appleton and Company, 1881 A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War. |
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... Attack at Philippi ; at Laurel Hill . - Death of General Garnett PAGE . 319 330 CHAPTER VI . Removal of the Seat of Government to Richmond . - Message to Congress at Richmond . - Confederate Forces in Virginia . - Forces of the Enemy ...
... Attack at Philippi ; at Laurel Hill . - Death of General Garnett PAGE . 319 330 CHAPTER VI . Removal of the Seat of Government to Richmond . - Message to Congress at Richmond . - Confederate Forces in Virginia . - Forces of the Enemy ...
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... Attacked by Rosecrans . - Controversy between Wise and Floyd . — General R. E. Lee takes the Command in West Virginia . - Movement on Cheat Mountain . - Its Failure . Further Operations . - Winter Quarters . - Lee sent to South Carolina ...
... Attacked by Rosecrans . - Controversy between Wise and Floyd . — General R. E. Lee takes the Command in West Virginia . - Movement on Cheat Mountain . - Its Failure . Further Operations . - Winter Quarters . - Lee sent to South Carolina ...
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... attacks there- on , with a view to its overthrow ; and that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other , given by the States respectively , on entering into the ...
... attacks there- on , with a view to its overthrow ; and that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other , given by the States respectively , on entering into the ...
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... attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might have been bound . " The Convention expressly refused to confer the power proposed , and the clause was lost . While , therefore , in 1860 , many violent men ...
... attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might have been bound . " The Convention expressly refused to confer the power proposed , and the clause was lost . While , therefore , in 1860 , many violent men ...
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... attacked it vehemently . He said , speaking of the system of government set forth in the proposed Constitution : " That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear ; and the danger of such a government is , to my mind , very ...
... attacked it vehemently . He said , speaking of the system of government set forth in the proposed Constitution : " That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear ; and the danger of such a government is , to my mind , very ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volum 1 Jefferson Davis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1912 |
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volum 1 Jefferson Davis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1881 |
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action adopted amendment APPENDIX appointed arms army Articles Articles of Confederation asserted assurance attack authority battle Beauregard brigade cause Charleston citizens Colonel command Commissioners communication compact Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution Convention Davis declared defense delegated duty enemy eral ernment Executive existing expressed Federal Government force Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts garrison Governor harbor honor hostile independence JEFFERSON DAVIS Johnston Kentucky Legislature letter Major Anderson Major ROBERT ANDERSON Manassas ment military militia Mississippi Missouri North Northern object officers organization P. G. T. Beauregard party peace Pickens political position possession present President principles proposition purpose question ratified received reënforcements referred regard regiments Representatives resolutions Richmond seceding secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent Seward slaves South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty Sumter territory tion troops Union United United States Army Virginia vote Washington withdraw
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Side 667 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Side 317 - Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Side 188 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...
Side 92 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Side 28 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Side 639 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Side 49 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Side 318 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Side 181 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Side 640 - All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.