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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,742 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 1,016 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 996 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 516 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 274 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 180 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 172 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 164 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 142 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 130 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, should have been singled out for comment, is to me unaccountable. The resolutions of the South Carolina Legislature, asking the conference, were transmitted to all the Southern States, and none of those States responded except Mississippi and Alabama.--Why no complaint of the other States who declined to accede to the proposal? After a careful examination of your resolutions, since the perusal of the Governor's Message, I see nothing that could have entitled them to the special notice that many years the policy was to admit States pari passu, so as to preserve the equilibrium in the Senate between the North and the South. In carrying out this policy, Vermont and Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, Indiana and Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama. Maine and Missouri, Arkansas and Michigan, Florida and Iowa, came in together, or near the same time. When the State of Missouri was admitted, the State of Maine was cut off from the then State of Massachusetts, for the purpose of preserving t
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], James River and Kanawha Company. (search)
Congressional. Washington, Jan. 7. --Senate.--Mr. Clay, of Alabama, appeared and took his seat. The resignation of Senator Hamlin, of Me., (now elected Vice President,) to take effect on Monday next, was received and read. The admission of Kansas and the Pacific Railroad bill were postponed, and Mr. Crittenden resolutions called up. Mr. Crittenden advocated his plan. If Congress could not settle matters, the people could give them instructions, and there would be no humiliation in obeying them. It was a question of national existence. Would the Republicans encounter civil war rather than deviate a hair's breadth from their particular dogmas. He appealed in the most affecting language to both sides. Mr. Toombs, of Ga., responded. He said the Republicans had been sowing dragons, and would raise a crop of armed men. The Union was already dissolved, for the cause of South Carolina was the cause of the whole South.--The South had appealed to the fraternit
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the President and the South Carolina Commissioners. (search)
he several States is the Constitution of the United States; and, where as, that Constitution has been violated by a majority of the Northern States in their separate legislative actions, denying to the people of the Southern States their Constitutional rights; and, whereas, a sectional party, known as the Black Republican party, has, in a recent election, elected Lincoln to the office of President and Hamlin to the office of Vice President of these United States, who hold that the Constitution of the United States does not recognize property in slaves, and that the Government should prevent its extension into the common Territories of the United States, and that the power of the Government should be so exercised that slavery should in time be exterminated: Therefore be it. Resolved, That the State of Alabama will not submit to the administration of Lincoln and Hamlin as President and Vice President of the United States, upon the principles referred to in the foregoing preamble.