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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
ce, and not compel us to resort further to the force under our control. The Government asks only that its authority may be recognized; and, we repeat, in no manner or way does it desire to interfere with your laws, constitutionally established, your institutions of any kind whatever, your property of any sort, or your usages in any respect. this appeal alarmed the Confederate leaders in that State, and the Governor, Henry T. Clark, issued a counter-proclamation a few days afterward, Feb. 22, 1862. in which he denounced the expedition as an attempt to deprive the inhabitants of liberty, property, and all they held most dear as a self-governing and free people. he called upon them to supply the requisitions just made by Jefferson Davis for troops to repel the enemy. we must resist him, he said, at all hazards, and by every means in our power. He wages a war for our subjugation — a war forced upon us in wrong, and prosecuted without right, and in a spirit of vengeful wickedness,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
and to the Representatives by Howell Cobb, of Georgia. Thomas Bocock, of Virginia, was elected Speaker. On the following day the votes for President of the Confederacy were counted, and were found to be one hundred and nine in number, all of which were cast for Jefferson Davis. The votes were as follows:--Alabama, 11; Arkansas, 6; Florida, 4; Georgia, 12; Louisiana, 8; Mississippi 9; North Carolina, 12; South Carolina, 8; Tennessee, 13; Texas, 8; Virginia, 18. Three days afterward Feb. 22, 1862. he was inaugurated President for six years. He chose for his Cabinet Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, as Secretary of State ; George W. Randolph, of Virginia, Secretary of War ; S. R. Mallory, of Florida, Secretary of the Navy ; C. G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasury ; and Thomas H. Watts, of Alabama, Attorney-General. Randolph resigned in the autumn of 1862, when James A. Seddon, a wealthy citizen of Richmond, who figured conspicuously in the Peace Convention at