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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
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
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Virginia Battlefield Park. (search)
thereupon- II. The Fredericksburg and Adjacent National Battlefields Memorial Association of Virginia was chartered February 12, 1898, Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and organized February 22, 1898, Washington's birthday. Among the incorporators a.. over two hundred gentlemen, ex-officers and soldiers of the war of 1861-5, from thirty-eight States of the Union and the District of Columbia. In these incorporators are many of the leaders on each side of the war of 18861-5, such as General Horatio C. King, its president, and for twenty-five years the secretary of the Army of the Potomac; General Orland Smith, the present president of the Army of the Potomac; General Daniel E. Sickles; Governor W. A. Stone, of Pennsylvania, and ex-Governor Beaver, of that State; ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy; General Felix Agnew, of the Baltimore American; General F. D. Grant, Charles Broadway Rouss, ex-Governor Chamberlain, of Maine; Congressman Amos Cummings, ex-Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia;
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
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,