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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate steamship Patrick Henry. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Calhoun —Nullification explained. (search)
Calhoun—Nullification explained. by Colonel Benjamin E. Green, of Dalton, Ga.
During Mr. Buchanan's administration, before the slave-holding States proposed to withdraw peaceably, rather than wait to be expelled from the confederation, a State Disunion Convention met at Worcester, Massachusetts.
It was composed of men who subsequently became the controlling element of the party which elected Mr. Lincoln President and abolished slavery by force of arms.
They adopted the following platform:
Resolved, That the meeting of a State Disunion Convention, attended by men of various parties and affinities, gives occasion for a new statement of principles and a new platform of action.
Resolved, That the cardinal American principle is now, as always, liberty, while the prominent fact is now, as always, slavery.
Resolved, That the conflict between this principle of liberty and this fact of slavery has been the whole history of the nation for fifty years, while the only result of thi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers . (search)