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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
enneth Rayner, Governor Reid, E. J. Warren, and a few others, it will be seen that most of the leaders were University men. When the convention came, on the 18th of June, to choose Senators and Representatives from North Carolina to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, which met in Richmond, in July 1861, the dominating influence of the University was still more powerfully felt. Four men were nominated for the senatorships: George Davis, W. W. Avery, Bedford Brown and Henry W. Miller. They were all University men. Seven others received votes without a formal nomination; five of these, W. A. Graham, Thomas Bragg, William Eaton, Jr., John M. Morehead, and George Howard, Jr., were University men. Davis and Avery were chosen. For the eight seats in the Confederate House of Representatives, 17 candidates were presented. Eight candidates were University men and four of these were elected: Burton Craige, Thomas D. McDowell, John M. Morehead and Thomas Ruffin, Jr. As Jud
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
ed a series breathing devotion to the Union so long as the Government was constitutionally administered, and recommending the thorough organization of the militia, the arming and equipment of volunteer companies, and asserting the duty of the State to demand her rights in the Union. Mr. Holden declared his fixed purpose to stand by the Union until the Constitution should be violated, and that in that event the South should stand as a unit in defence of her constitutional rights. Mr. Henry W. Miller followed, in a speech of two hours. Mr. Vance entertained the audience for an hour, and he received a beautiful bouquet from the ladies in the galleries as a testimonial for his defence of the Constitution and the Union. A Southern Convention. The National Intelligencer of yesterday has the following: With the view of arresting the hands already uplifted for the piecemeal dismemberment of our body politic, and to the end that our fellow-citizens and compatriots of the S
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], First fruits of Africanizing Ohio. (search)
Hon Henry W. Miller, a prominent citizen of North Carolina, Aid suddenly in Raleigh on the 17th inst.