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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 11 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 44: Charleston Convention, 1860. (search)
f opinion on the subject of admitting slavery into the new Territories. Mr. Stephen Douglas was the leader of the party of squatter sovereignty, and to his standardal shibboleth. A vote to observe the two-thirds rule destroyed the hopes of Mr. Douglas's friends, but they were irreconcilable, for with them it was aut Douglas auDouglas aut Nullus. The seceding delegates did not return, though had they been willing to do so, their right to take their seats had been referred to the Committee on Creant by their departure, and the minority were helpless to re-occupy them. The Douglas men had in several instances elected new men to the convention in lieu of the ing proceeded, New York forced the two-thirds rule on the convention, but Mr. Douglas's friends stood a solid phalanx around him, and would vote for no person or thes to Charleston should receive tickets of admission, but it was defeated by Mr. Douglas's friends. The new delegates elected to fill the vacant seats were admitted