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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... defense , as the instigators of a contro- versy leading to disunion . Sectional issues appear conspicuously in the debates of the Convention which framed the Federal Constitution , and its many compromises were designed to secure an ...
... defense , as the instigators of a contro- versy leading to disunion . Sectional issues appear conspicuously in the debates of the Convention which framed the Federal Constitution , and its many compromises were designed to secure an ...
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... Defense in the South . - Evidences of the Good Faith and Peaceable Purposes of the Southern People 226 CHAPTER V. Meeting of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States . - Adoption of a Provisional Constitution . - Election of ...
... Defense in the South . - Evidences of the Good Faith and Peaceable Purposes of the Southern People 226 CHAPTER V. Meeting of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States . - Adoption of a Provisional Constitution . - Election of ...
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... Defense . - Efforts to obtain Arms ; also Troops . · PAGE 385 CHAPTER IX . - The Coercion of Missouri . - Answers of the Governors of States to President Lincoln's Requisition for Troops . Restoration of Forts Caswell and Johnson to the ...
... Defense . - Efforts to obtain Arms ; also Troops . · PAGE 385 CHAPTER IX . - The Coercion of Missouri . - Answers of the Governors of States to President Lincoln's Requisition for Troops . Restoration of Forts Caswell and Johnson to the ...
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... defense of a cause consecrated by inheritance , as well as sustained by conviction ; and to those who , perhaps less for- tunate , staked all , and lost all , save life and honor , in its behalf , has impelled me to attempt the ...
... defense of a cause consecrated by inheritance , as well as sustained by conviction ; and to those who , perhaps less for- tunate , staked all , and lost all , save life and honor , in its behalf , has impelled me to attempt the ...
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... defense of me against the false accusation of disunionism , and , before I had returned to you the thanks to Briarfield , Early Residence of Mr. Davis . AMBORLIAO 1851 20 RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT .
... defense of me against the false accusation of disunionism , and , before I had returned to you the thanks to Briarfield , Early Residence of Mr. Davis . AMBORLIAO 1851 20 RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT .
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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.