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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 126 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 115 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 94 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 64 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 42 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 34 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 28 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 24 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The causes of the war [from the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C., November 28, 1897.] (search)
ed, That Congress possesses no constitutional authority to interfere, in any way, with the institution of slavery in any of the States of this Confederacy. John C. Calhoun's resolutions passed in the United States Senate January 12, 1838, are of the same tenor, but more elaborate: Resolved, That domestic slavery, as it exixclusively for themselves. Passed the Senate—yeas 35, nays 9—Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island voting in the negative. Calhoun's bill of Wrongs. Mr. Calhoun, in his speech in the Senate, March 4, 1850, sets forth the long course of injustice perpetrated by the North on the South in their attempt to abridge the constportion of the territory controlled by the United States, and how the industry of the South was sapped by the protective tariff for the benefit of the North. Mr. Calhoun says: What was once a constitutional Federal Republic is now converted into one in reality as absolute as that of the Autocrat of Russia, and as despotic in it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
situation. Whether the road to the Confederacy was straight or devious, the one significant thing was, it led to the goal which the road builders were denied. Calhoun trusted Davis. In the last months of his life, John C. Calhoun, seeing the end of his own availability approaching, prophesied that the young Senator from MissJohn C. Calhoun, seeing the end of his own availability approaching, prophesied that the young Senator from Mississippi, then on crutches from the field of Buena Vista, would be the master spirit in the ripening movement to confederate under one government the slave States. Calhoun died in the belief that the Senator intended his eloquent defence of the right of secession and his eloquent portrayal of the perils which beset the slave StatesCalhoun died in the belief that the Senator intended his eloquent defence of the right of secession and his eloquent portrayal of the perils which beset the slave States should lead to the remedy of secession. But the President of the Southern Confederacy never approved the secession movement. Mr. Davis was, perhaps never quite understood. The hand of the Confederate government denied the predicate of preference to the men from whose brains and hearts the Southern movement had been nourished
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Buchanan, Admiral Franklin, 244. Buchanan, President Against Coercion, 31. Buell, General Don Carlos, 124, 131. Bullock, Captain James D., 114. Burnside, General A. E., 265. Burton, General H. W., 346. Caddall, J. B., 174. Calhoun, John C., 28, 106. Campbell, John A, 107. Cameran, W. E., 347. Carrington, Colonel H. A., Sketch of, 216. Carter, Colonel, killed, 8. Carter, Lieutenant Henry C., wounded, 6. Carter, Colonel Thomas H., 233. Cedar Creek, Batton of the Federal, 14; its construction, 16, 139. Cummings, Colonel A. C., 97, 174. Daoney, D. D., Rev. Robert L., 3. Dana, C. A., 340. Daniel, Hon. John W., 174, 183, 223. Daves, Major Graham, 275. Davis, Jefferson, trusted by Calhoun, 106; his Rise and Fall of the Confederate States Government, 109; beauty and purity of character of, 294; last escort of, 337; prison life of and fellow prisoners, 338, 371. DeBell, Captain J. B., 144. DeLeon, T. C., 146. DeLeon, Edwar