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Mexico (Mexico) (search for this): chapter 1.2
entle climate invites the shivering Northerners to flee the wrath to come and revel in the luscious lures of orange groves. Will they not, while breathing the balm of Indian river and Tampa's strand—will they not bless the valor of Andrew Jackson and the acquisitive statesmanship of his Southern compeers which delivered this glorious peninsula from the oppression of Spain and committed it to the keeping of the American Union? And next in order, great Texas won by annexation and consequent Mexican war, followed by victory, peace and purchase, that brought us for a trifle in money the ownership of New Mexico, the garden fields of all the Californias and a Pacific shore line whose harbors now open to the trade of the Orient. Everybody knows that this magnificent gain was the result of the South's aggressive policy and occurred through the administration of a Southern President. Last comes Arizona, known in the annals of acquisition as the Gadsden purchase, achieved, as is conceded, b
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
enty thousand men, South Carolina thirty-one thousand, Georgia nearly as many, and Virginia fifty-six thousand. South Carolina doubled New Hampshire, South Carolina and Georgia outnumbered New York, Virginia sent sixteen thousand more men than Pennsylvania. Massachusetts did the noblest of all the Northern States, yet South Carolina sent thirty-seven out of forty-two of its arms-bearing men, and Massachusetts thirty-two out of forty-two. From official report it is gleaned that the States in thry to a more perfect union. The Revolutionary war separated the States from England but did not establish a perfect Union among themselves. Difficulties concerning inter-State relations arose, especially involving Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey to such extent as to make disunion and anarchy imminent. What was the voice of the Southern States at that critical juncture? I am happy in being made able to answer that amidst these portentous perplexities the firs
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
ing with the call to arms to win American Independence, what was the part borne by the Southern States in that Revolutionary struggle? I will answer that it is the glory of North Carolina to have shed the first blood for colonial liberty at Alamance in 1771, and having given her sons to the common cause, she fought on to the finish. Maryland furnished twenty thousand men, South Carolina thirty-one thousand, Georgia nearly as many, and Virginia fifty-six thousand. South Carolina doubled New Hampshire, South Carolina and Georgia outnumbered New York, Virginia sent sixteen thousand more men than Pennsylvania. Massachusetts did the noblest of all the Northern States, yet South Carolina sent thirty-seven out of forty-two of its arms-bearing men, and Massachusetts thirty-two out of forty-two. From official report it is gleaned that the States in the Northern division sent one hundred men for every two hundred and twenty-seven arms-bearing population, and the South sent one hundred out o
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
your own Virginia by its cession of territory to which jurists said and say it had a valid title; look at the gift made by Maryland, North Carolina's donation of Tennessee, and Georgia's cession from the Chattahoochee to the Mississippi; then examine that outlying range of northwestern territory won and held by the backwoods' boys,f and his regiments famous at Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, while Andrew Jackson whipped Packenham at New Orleans with men from Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Next the Mexican war, preceded by the adventurous help for Texas rendered by Lamar, Houston, Fannin, Crockett and other like spirits from Tennessee and GeorgiTennessee and Georgia, when the blood of the South crimsoned the Alamo, and afterward freely flowed in all battles from Palo Alto to the ancient city of the Montezumas, and in which the troops of the American Union were led to victory by such men as Pierce, Butler, Zachary Taylor, Wingfield Scott, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. In that war of so
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
nto one national air. A true peace among the people of these United States is now a fact accomplished,—not a thing to be sought for, but af the present Dakotas, and covering ground nearly one-third the United States! That imperial region was seized in peace from Napoleon by theecial mission contrived the trade. Now, take your map of these United States and territories. Survey with all your American pride the broadIndependence which Jefferson drew and the Constitution of these United States. Iv. Growth of the Union sentiment. The idea of a Unioagain from this memorial further to say that the title, Confederate States of America, can never represent anything but an honorable nation tcade above the percentage increase of all other sections of the United States combined. It had in 1860 a mile of rail to every seven hundred the world the greater glory of our matchless Country— the United States of America! The South and the future. The South is now newly gi
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
the States in the Northern division sent one hundred men for every two hundred and twenty-seven arms-bearing population, and the South sent one hundred out of every two hundred and nine. In the account of suffering by invasion, it appears that Norfolk was burned, Charleston and Savannah captured, and the Southern States invaded with British armies for years, while Washington drove Howe from Boston in March, 1776, and from that date all Massachusetts was free from the presence of the enemy to , after a hundred years of competition, it stood foremost in industrial and commercial power, and then saw without envy the material wealth of the wide and rich territory it had donated to the general estate turning away from its own ports, and Norfolk, the natural entrepot of commerce, surpassed by New York. The Northern section grew rapidly because the Northeast became the Merchant, the Banker, the Transportation agent, and at lengh the Manufacturer of the Country, by which adjustment of bu
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
liberty was successfully fought. May I not take courage again from this memorial further to say that the title, Confederate States of America, can never represent anything but an honorable nation to any honorable mind. But there was still another step necessary to a more perfect union. The Revolutionary war separated the States from England but did not establish a perfect Union among themselves. Difficulties concerning inter-State relations arose, especially involving Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey to such extent as to make disunion and anarchy imminent. What was the voice of the Southern States at that critical juncture? I am happy in being made able to answer that amidst these portentous perplexities the first suggestion on record of the more perfect Union was made by Madison, and that Virginia, as the spokesman of Southern sentiment, arose to the political zenith and drew after her all the stars of the Confederation into that inspired conv
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
inciples of individual liberty, and put them in operation through a government of republican-democratic form. It will not be claimed that political virtues were all centered in Southern Colonies and descended from Southern sources alone. North of the dividing line drawn by King James, in 1606, there lived a host of men in whose own brave hearts burned the inextinguishable flame of civil and religious freedom. I know from the record that in 1630 the spirit of home rule stirred the soul of Plymouth men, and Massachusetts resolved to hold a Legislature for its Settlements. It is in happy memory that in 1639 the Connecticut settlers adopted the fundamental orders for their self government, said to be the first written constitution of America. With pride we read in the records of New Jersey for 1680, its brave resolutions against illegal and tyrannous taxation. We recall with delight the heroism of John Peter Zenger, of New York, who bravely printed in his paper the demands of his peo
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
tion as the Gadsden purchase, achieved, as is conceded, by the skill of the South Carolina Senator, who by special mission contrived the trade. Now, take your map ofause, she fought on to the finish. Maryland furnished twenty thousand men, South Carolina thirty-one thousand, Georgia nearly as many, and Virginia fifty-six thousand. South Carolina doubled New Hampshire, South Carolina and Georgia outnumbered New York, Virginia sent sixteen thousand more men than Pennsylvania. Massachusetts diSouth Carolina and Georgia outnumbered New York, Virginia sent sixteen thousand more men than Pennsylvania. Massachusetts did the noblest of all the Northern States, yet South Carolina sent thirty-seven out of forty-two of its arms-bearing men, and Massachusetts thirty-two out of forty-twoSouth Carolina sent thirty-seven out of forty-two of its arms-bearing men, and Massachusetts thirty-two out of forty-two. From official report it is gleaned that the States in the Northern division sent one hundred men for every two hundred and twenty-seven arms-bearing population, annce toward Union, Bancroft quotes the words of Gadsden: Had it not been for South Carolina no Congress would have happened. To that first Congress, Georgia, having b
Westport Harbor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.2
med in the political processes of Colonial development, and which all royal and aristocratic Europe derided as a madcap scheme, was the priceless product of prolonged conflicts which bestrewed the field of our heroic history with the wrecks of many patriotic endeavors, but emblazoned it at last by the triumphs of sound principles and the establishment of our novel, potent and rythmical system of government. The English Colonies deployed along the Atlantic coast for a thousand miles from Buzzard's Bay, the outpost of the Plymouth Settlement, to Brunswick harbor, where Oglethorpe fought, rocked the infant Union in the cradle of those recurring political storms which beat upon it in varying fury for one hundred and fifty years. There was such a growing appreciation of the common interest that wherever the British Crown asserted the claim to hold the Colonies dependent for laws and liberties upon the royal will, the American discussions had the same fire, the protests showed the same sp
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