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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix I (search)
Appendix I correspondence and extracts from correspondence relative to Fort Sumter, from the affair of the Star of the West, January 9, 1861, to the withdrawal of the envoy of South Carolina from Washington, February 8, 1861. Major Anderson to the Governor of South Carolina To his Excellency the Governor of South Carolina. sir: Two of your batteries fired this morning upon an unarmed vessel bearing the flag of my Government. As I have not been notified that war has been declared mation as to the time when an answer may be expected in Charleston. With high consideration. I am, very respectfully, Isaac W. Hayne, Special Envoy. Some further correspondence ensued, but without the presentation of any new feature necessary to a full understanding of the case. The result was to leave it as much unsettled in the end as it had been in the beginning, and the efforts at negotiation were terminated by the retirement from Washington of Colonel Hayne on February 8, 1861.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix K (search)
Appendix K The Constitutions the provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, adopted on February 8, 1861, is here presented, followed by the Constitution of the United States, with all its amendments to the period of the secession of the Southern states, and the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States (adopted on March 11, 1861), in parallel columns. The variations from the Constitution of the United States, in the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, are indicated by italics; the parts omitted by periods. Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish this Constitution for the provisional Government of the same: to continue one year from the inauguration of the President, or until a