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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 7 5 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 6 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 3 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 4 2 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
eatened speedily to obtain entire control of the government. Based, as has been shown, upon sectional rivalry and opposition to the growth of the Southern equally with the Northern states of the Union, it had absorbed within itself not only the abolitionists, who were avowedly agitating for the destruction of the system of negro servitude, but other diverse and heterogeneous elements of opposition to the Democratic party. In the presidential election of 1856, their candidates (Fremont and Dayton) had received 114 of a total of 296 electoral votes, representing a popular vote of 1,341,264 in a total of 4,053,967. The elections of the ensuing year (1857) exhibited a diminution of the so-called Republican strength, and the Thirty-fifth Congress, which convened in December of that year, was decidedly Democratic in both branches. In the course of the next two years, however, the Kansas agitation and another cause, to be presently noticed, had so swollen the ranks of the so-called Repub
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
permitted its propagation within those limits by natural increase—and inasmuch as the Confederate Constitution precluded any other than the same natural increase, we may plainly perceive the disingenuousness and absurdity of the pretension by which a factitious sympathy has been obtained in certain quarters for the war upon the South, on the ground that it was a war in behalf of freedom against slavery. As late as April 22, 1861, Seward, United States Secretary of State, in a dispatch to Dayton, minister to France, since made public, expressed the views and purposes of the United States government in the premises as follows. It may be proper to explain that, by what he is pleased to term the revolution, Seward means the withdrawal of the Southern states; that the words italicized are, perhaps, not so distinguished in the original. He says: The Territories will remain in all respects the same, whether the revolution shall succeed or shall fail. The condition of slavery in the sev
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
e to Lecompton constitution, 465-69. Extracts from speech to citizens of Portland, Me., 470-73. Address to citizens of Boston, 478-89. Speech in U. S. Senate relative to president's message on state of the Union, 519-37. John W., 290-91. Dayton, 32, 226. Delaware, 9, 10, 42. Commissioners to Annapolis, 76. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 80. Ratification of Constitution, 90-91. Delaware (ship), 285. Democratic convention, 40, 43. Convention (Miss59. Retrospect, 66-67. Safeguards against, 158-59. Seddon, James A. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214. Semmes, Captain, 408. Emissary to North to secure arms for Con-federacy, 270-71. Seward, W. H., 58, 59. Extract from dispatch to Dayton, 226-27. Relations with Confederate commission, 230-238. Instructions to Dallas, 281-82. Seymour, Horatio, 220. Sharkey, William L., 198. Sherman, Roger, 123. Shiloh, Battle of, 409. Sickles, General, 390, 394. Singleton,