hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 5 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 9 results in 3 document sections:

Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 6: peace propositions. (search)
osed the Peace Convention, as was afterward learned from a correspondence read in the Senate on February 27th, because it would be a step toward obtaining that concession which the imperious slave power so insolently demands. See letter of S. K. Bingham to Governor Blair of Michigan, Congressional Globe, Second Session, 36th Congress, Part II., page 1147. Finally the writer changed his policy and recommended that true, unflinching men be sent, who would be in favor of the Constitution as it in other phrase, oppose any effort at pacification of the contending parties. The other Senator wanted stiff-backed delegates, and added that without a little blood-letting the Union would not be worth a rush. Mr. Z. Chandler wrote that Governor Bingham telegraphed him, at the request of Massachusetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace or Compromise Congress. Ohio, Indiana, and Rhode Island are coming in, and there is danger of Illinois; and now they beg us, for God's sake, to com
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
n had at first opposed the participation of that state in the conference, on the ground that it was, as one of them expressed it, a step toward obtaining that concession which the imperious slave powers so insolently demand See letter of Hon. S. K. Bingham to Governor Blair of Michigan, in Congressional Globe, second session, Thirty-sixth Congress, Part II, p. 1247.—that is to say, in plain terms, they objected to it because it might lead to a compromise and pacification. Finding, however, t Congressional Globe, ut supra. As this letter, last referred to, is brief and characteristic of the temper of the typical so-called Republicans of the period, it may be inserted entire: Washington, February 11, 1861. my dear Governor: Governor Bingham and myself telegraphed you on Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace or Compromise Congress. They admit that we were right, and that they were wrong; that no Republican State should have sent
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
rence with Davis, 312-13. Letters from Davis concerning Manassas, 317-18. Plan for Manassas and endorsement, 319-21. Letter from Davis concerning organization of troops by states, 385-86. Beckham, Lieut., 325. Bee, Gen., Barnard, 310. Bell, John, 44, 45. Belmont (Mo.), Battle of, 345-46. Beltzhoover, —, 345. Benjamin, Judah P., 391. Selected as Attorney-General (Confederacy), 207-09. Berrien, —, 13-14. Bethel Church, Battle of, 297. Bigler, —, 58. Bingham, S. K., 215. Blair, Austin, 215. Col. F. P., 359, 364. Montgomery, 233-34, 238. Bonham, Gen. M. L., 260,307, 308, 309. Booneville, Battle of, 364. Boston Memorial Presentation to Congress, 140. Extract on equality of states, 153. Bragg, General, 350. Breckinridge, John C., 43, 44, 45, 177, 342. Extracts from address to Kentuckians, 343-44. Brierfield, Warren Co., Miss., 197. Brockenbrugh, John W. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214. Brooklyn navy yard. Si<