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1760 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
ngton and Hamilton, Jefferson and Adams, Madison and Franklin, of the New World, who, however varying in circumstance or in personality, were liberty leaders and representatives of great people, great ideas, and great deeds. Unity of the Southern colonies against slavery. On what ground will he be challenged? Did not the Southern folk show originally an aversion to slavery more manifestly even than those of the North? South Carolina protested against it as early as 1727 and as late as 1760. Georgia prohibited it by law. Virginia sternly set her face against it, and levied a tax of ten dollars per head on every negro to prevent it. They were all overridden by the avarice of English merchants and the despotism of English ministers. Do as you would be done by is not yet the maxim of our race, which will push oft on its weaker brethren that it will not itself accept; and thus slavery was thrust on the South, an uninvited—aye, a forbidden-guest. Quickly did the South stop the slav
December 7th, 1889 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
embly of Virginia at Mozart Academy of music, January 25, 1890. Preliminary proceedings on the part of the General Assembly. In the Senate of Virginia, December 7, 1889, Senator T. W. Harrison, of Winchester, offered the following concurrent resolution: Resolved (the House of Delegates concurring), That the Hon. John W.art of the House be appointed to wait upon the Hon. John W. Daniel and extend him this invitation and make all necessary arrangements. Agreed to by Senate December 7, 1889. J. D. Pendleton, Clerk of Senate. Agreed to by House of Delegates December 7, 1889. J. Bell Bigger, Clerk of House of Delegates. The following joint cDecember 7, 1889. J. Bell Bigger, Clerk of House of Delegates. The following joint committee was appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Delegates, respectively: Committee on the part of the Senate: T. W. Harrison, of Winchester. Taylor Berry, of Amherst. Committee on the part of the House of Delegates: J. Owens Berry, of Fairfax. P. C. Cabell, of Amherst. James M. Stubbs, of Glouc
January 25th, 1890 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
cter of Jefferson Davis. An Oration by Hon. John W. Daniel. Delivered under the auspices of the General Assembly of Virginia at Mozart Academy of music, January 25, 1890. Preliminary proceedings on the part of the General Assembly. In the Senate of Virginia, December 7, 1889, Senator T. W. Harrison, of Winchester, offer the pleasant duty of tendering the said invitation, and are gratified to report that Hon. John W. Daniel has accepted the invitation, and has designated Saturday January 25, 1890, at 8 o'clock P. M., as the time for the delivery of the same at the Mozart Academy of Music. J. Bell Bigger, Clerk House of Delegates and Keeper of Rolls of Virginia. At 8 P. M. on the 25th day of January, 1890, the Hon. R. H. Cardwell, Speaker of the House of Delegates, called the vast assemblage to order, and delivered the following introductory address: Ladies and Gentlemen: It is the pleasing part of my duties to welcome you on this occasion—especially pleasing bec
February 23rd (search for this): chapter 1.10
ly the creed of Jefferson Davis. Again, on the 17th day of December, after the secession of South Carolina, that journal said: If the Declaration of Independence justified the secession from the British empire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on the point, why does not some one attempt to show wherein and why? And yet again, on the 23d of February, after Mr. Davis had been inaugurated as President at Montgomery, it said: We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of American Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just, and that if the slave States, the cotton States, or the Gulf States only choose to form an independent nation they have a clear moral right to do so. The balance of powe
1776 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
tion ordained. When independence was declared at Philadelphia, in 1776, America was yet a unit in the possession of slaves, and when the Could be as vain a thing to do as to discuss that of the Revolution of 1776. Each revolution concluded the question that induced it. Slavery wa secession from the British empire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of five millio, but had consecrated as just in principle and vindicated by deed in 1776. The United States treated secession as a political question and and understand the law of the sword, for the men of independence in 1776 and 1861 were of the same blood as those who in each case cried, Disn I say to you that my father and uncles fought in the Revolution of 1776, giving their youth, their blood, and their little patrimony to the ong in failures; but not worse in this case than in the revoluion of 1776, when Washington was at the head. So far did they go wrong then tha
1771 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
Scott decision might be reversed. The Southern States were already in procession of secession The high tides of revolution were in their flow. The South and the Union—its battles. Pause, now, upon the threshold, and geography and history will alike tell you that neither in its people nor in its leader was there lack of love for the Union, and that it was with sad hearts that they saw its ligaments torn asunder. Look at the Southern map. There may be read the name of Alamance, where in 1771 the first drop of American blood was shed against arbitrary taxation, and at Mecklenburg, where was sounded the first note of Independence. Before the Declaration at Philadelphia there had risen in the Southern sky what Bancroft termed the bright morning star of American Independence, where, on the 28th of June, 1776, the guns of Moultrie at the Palmetto fort in front of Charleston announced the first victory of American arms. At King's Mountain is the spot where the rough-and-ready men of
December, 1860 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
much? Mr. Davis answered: Yes; I have long sought for a respectable man to allege the contrary. And the imputation ended with the unanswered challenge to produce the evidence. Even when secession seemed a foregone conclusion, Mr. Davis stroved to avert it, being ready at any time to adopt the Crittenden measures of compromise if they were accepted by the opposition; and when the representatives and senators from Mississippi were called in conference with the Governor of that State, in December, 1860, he still advised forbearance as long as any hope of a peaceful remedy remained, declaring that he felt certain, from his knowledge of the people North and South, that if once there was a clash of arms the contest would be one of the most sanguinary the world had ever witnessed. But a single member of the conference agreed with him; several of its members were so dissatisfied with his position that they believed him entirely opposed to secession and as seeking delay with the hope that i
February 12th, 1848 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
enthusiasm as he looked upon that obelisk which rises a monument to freedom's and his country's triumph, and stands a type of the time, the men and event it commemorates; built of material that mocks the waves of time, without niche or moulding for parasite or creeping thing to rest on, and pointing like a finger to the sky, to raise man's thoughts to philanthropic and noble deeds? Scarce had these words died upon the air when there arose another in the House of Representatives, on February 12, 1848—one who had just voted that the war with Mexico was unnecessary and unconstitutional, and who now based his views of the rights attaching by the conquest on the rights of revolution. He said: Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this ri
1782 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
armed skeleton was found in a recess near the gate of Pompeii. When burst the sulphurous storm, the undaunted hero dropped the visor of his helmet and stood there to die. Would you know why the South is great? Look on the new-made grave in Louisiana, and consider the ragged soldier of Bentonville and Appomattox. Early days—Davis and Lincoln. After the Revolutionary war Samuel Davis, who had served in it as one of the mounted men of Georgia, settled in Kentucky. Pending the war, in 1782 (the very year that George Rogers Clarke captured Kaskaskia), Thomas Lincoln, of Rockingham county, Virginia, removed to the same State. Jefferson Davis, the son of the first named settler, was born on June 3, 1808, and on February 12, 1809, was born the son of the other—Abraham Lincoln. Samuel Davis moved to Mississippi. His son became a cadet at West Point under appointment from President Monroe, and soon, commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States army, appeared in the service fi
February 12th, 1809 AD (search for this): chapter 1.10
grave in Louisiana, and consider the ragged soldier of Bentonville and Appomattox. Early days—Davis and Lincoln. After the Revolutionary war Samuel Davis, who had served in it as one of the mounted men of Georgia, settled in Kentucky. Pending the war, in 1782 (the very year that George Rogers Clarke captured Kaskaskia), Thomas Lincoln, of Rockingham county, Virginia, removed to the same State. Jefferson Davis, the son of the first named settler, was born on June 3, 1808, and on February 12, 1809, was born the son of the other—Abraham Lincoln. Samuel Davis moved to Mississippi. His son became a cadet at West Point under appointment from President Monroe, and soon, commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States army, appeared in the service fighting the Indians on the frontier in the Blackhawk war. In early manhood Abraham Lincoln removed to Illinois, and, now, becoming a captain of volunteers, he and Jefferson Davis were under the same flag engaged in the same warfare.
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