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ance to his State, acquiesced in it and signed it. In his speech against it, he had said, Should Georgia determine to go out of the Union, I speak for one, though my views might not agree with theirs, whatever the result may be, I shall bow to the will of the people of my State. A month later Mr. Stephens was vice-president of the Provisional Confederate Government. After the war Mr. Stephens was confined some time as a state prisoner in Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, but was released Oct. 11, 1865. He published History of the War between the States. In 1866 he was chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union convention. In 1877 he represented Georgia in Congress, and retained his seat until elected governor of that State in 1882. He died in Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 1883. Slavery the corner-stone. In a speech delivered to the citizens of Savannah, Ga., in 1861, Vice-President Stephens declared the principles upon which the Southern Confederacy had been founded in th
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on Southern ports removed after Sept. 1 by proclamation of President......Aug. 29, 1865 South Carolina repeals ordinance of secession......Sept. 15, 1865 Alabama annuls the ordinance of secession......Sept. 25, 1865 North Carolina annuls the ordinance of secession......Oct. 7, 1865 Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; John H. Reagan, of Texas; John A. Campbell, of Alabama; George A. Trenholm, of South Carolina, and Charles Clark, of Mississippi, paroled by executive order......Oct. 11, 1865 President proclaims end of martial law in Kentucky......Oct. 12, 1865 Great Fenian meeting at Philadelphia; the Irish republic proclaimed......Oct. 16-24, 1865 Florida repeals ordinance of secession......Oct. 28, 1865 Georgia repeals ordinance of secession......Oct. 30, 1865 National thanksgiving for peace......Nov. 2, 1865 Shenandoah, Captain Waddell, reaches Liverpool, England, Nov. 6; he had first heard of the peace Aug. 2; vessel given up to British government, and