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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 3: (search)
e convention defeat of the State-rights party withdrawal of General Quitman and nomination of the author as candidate for the office of Goate-Rights) party. During the previous year the governor, General John A. Quitman, had been compelled to resign his office to answer an indimputation of a purpose of disunion, some of the antecedents of General Quitman might endanger success. A proposition was therefore made, in , that I should be invited to become a candidate, and that, if General Quitman would withdraw, my acceptance of the nomination and the resignsult, was to be followed by the appointment by the governor of General Quitman to the vacated place in the Senate. I offered no objection to this arrangement, but left it to General Quitman to decide. He claimed the nomination for the governorship, or nothing, and was so nominate in this result the foreshadowing of almost inevitable defeat, General Quitman withdrew from the canvass as a candidate, and the Executive Co
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
y authorities, 337-41. Defense of Belmont, Mo., 346-47. Popular sovereignty, (See Squatter sovereignty). Porterfield, Colonel, 293. Powell, Senator, 53, 55, 58. Prentice, —, 339. Preston, Col. J. L. T., 391. Col. John S., 324. William, 342. Price, Gen., Sterling, 356, 361, 364, 367-68, 369-70. Agreement with Gen. Harney, 358-60. Extract from address to people of Mis-souri, 361-62. Pugh, —, 38. Q Quincy, Josiah, 63, 140. Right of secession, 62-63. Quitman, Gen. John A., 17, 18. R Rains, Gen. G. W. Establishment of powder mill, 274-75, 407-08. Randolph, Edmund, 84, 94, 136. Opposition to armed force against states, 151. John, 9. Raritan (ship), 285. Read, William B., 338. Reagan, J. H. Selected Postmaster-General (Confederacy), 209. Rector, Gov. of Arkansas. Reply to U. S. call for troops, 355. Relief squadron, 244. Republican convention, 42. Party, 44-45. Explanation, 31-32. Growth, 32. Conventio