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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 122 (search)
1799, and that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed. The principles thus emphatically announced embrace that to which I have already adverted — the right of each State to judge of and redress the wrongs of which it complains. Their principles were maintained by overwhelming majorities of the people of all the States of the Union at different elections, especially in the election of Mr. Jefferson in 1805, Mr. Madison in 1809, and Mr. Pierce in 1852. In the exercise of a right so ancient, so well established, and so necessary for self-preservation, the people of the Confederate States in their conventions determined that the wrongs which they had suffered, and the evils with which they were menaced, required that they should revoke the delegation of powers to the Federal Government which they had ratified in their several conventions. They consequently passed ordinances resuming all their rights as sovereign and independent
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 266 (search)
contribution. Accordingly, I ordered. General Pierce, who is in command of Camp Hamilton, at Ha an attack upon Little Bethel. I directed General Pierce to support him from Hampton with Colonel Titives; or, if it was thought expedient by General Pierce, failing to surprise the camp at Little Bek to form a junction with his reserves. General Pierce, who was with Colonel Townsend's regiment, state of facts having been ascertained by General Pierce, the regiments effected a junction, and re the camp at Little Bethel, and advanced. General Pierce, then, as he informs me, with the advice olf-past 9 o'clock. At about ten o'clock General Pierce sent a note to me saying that there was a proach Hampton in good order, I waited for General Pierce to come up. I am informed by him that the tice and act accordingly. By command of E. W. Pierce, Brigadier-General. R. A. Pierce, Brig.-Mblames me at all. In haste, yours, &c., E. W. Pierce. A Confederate account. The followi[1 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)
use, but only the occasion. Mr. Everett, in a recent letter, said, that he was well aware, partly from facts within his personal knowledge, that leading Southern politicians had for thirty years been resolved to break up the Union as soon as they ceased to control the United States Government, and that the slavery question was but a pretext for keeping up agitation and rallying the South The Richmond Enquirer in 1856 declared, If Fremont is elected the Union will not last an hour after Mr. Pierce's term expires, and a careful examination will show that, from the attempt at nullification by South Carolina in 1832, which was defeated by the stern determination of General Jackson that the Union must and shall be preserved, a sentiment that was enthusiastically responded to by the country at large, the design has been secretly cherished, by a knot of conspirators at the South, of destroying the Union whenever the men entertaining this design should no longer be able to control its Gove