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and experienced in statesmanship.
Of course, in a paper of this character, I shall be enabled only to touch upon these matters in a cursory and extemporaneous manner.
You are all familiar with the historic events that led up to the assumption of sovereign powers by the thirteen Colonies and caused them to throw off their allegiance to the Mother Country—the casus belli—the last straw that broke the back of the patient camel that had borne many heavy and unjust burdens, imposed by a tyrant King and an inconsiderate Parliament, was taxation without representation.
This was the touchstone that consolidated opposition, this the spark that aroused the fires of resentment and kindled the flame of liberty that smouldered in every patriotic breast.
Our ancestors justly regarded the right of local selfgovern-ment as an inalienable and self-evident right.
They looked upon it as a fundamental or constitutional law, just as the principles of Magna Charta were regarded by their forefathers
on State Rights, Andrew, 67
Jackson, Stonewall, where he fell, 201 the right arm of Lee, 295
Jefferson, Thomas. On Central Government and Universal Suffrage, 65
The foremost man of all whose influence has led men to govern themselves by spiritual laws, 314
Jeffreys, Thos. D., 241
Johnston, Gen., Albert Sidney. A Tributary Epitaph to, 104
Jones, Gen. W. E., 100
Keenan, Death of Major, 200
Kentucky in 1788, 33
Kershaw, Gen. J. B., 23
Keysville Guards, 146 Roll of, 147
King, Col. H. H., 167
Lassiter, Charles T., Address of, 126
Lee, Gen. R. E. At Appomattox, 15 His self-denying greatness, 294 The quintessence of Virginia, 294 When a private soldier seized his bridle, 204
Lincoln, Abraham, His kindly feeling toward the South, 254 Emancipation Proclamation of, 60
McLaws, Gen. L., 24
Madison, James, small of stature, 47
Magistrates, The, of Virginia, 303
Mahone Gen. Wm., 171 prowess of, 174
Marshall, John, Sketch of, 45 His unaffected bearing,