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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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ng war against them, or in adhering to their enemies. Article III, section 3. The federal character of the Union is expressed by this very phaseology, which recognizes the distinct integrity of its members, not as fractional parts of one great unit, but as component units of an association. So clear was this to contemporaries that it needed only to be pointed out to satisfy their scruples. We have seen how effectual was the answer of Madison to the objections raised by Patrick Henry. Tench Coxe of Pennsylvania, one of the ablest political writers of his generation, in answering a similar objection, said: If the Federal Convention had meant to exclude the idea of union — that is, of several and separate sovereignties joining in a confederacy— they would have said, We, the people of America ; for union necessarily involves the idea of competent States, which complete consolidation excludes. American Museum, February, 1788. More than forty years afterward, when the gradual accr
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
mendment, 124-132, 165. Powers, 165. Power of amendment, 166-68. Constitutional convention, 1787 (See Philadelphia Constitutional convention). Constitutional-Union party (See Whig party). Continental Congress, 1st, 99, 100. Expressions quoted, 100-01. Cooper, Samuel, 21, 308, 392-93. Resignation from U. S. Army, 267. Attachment to Confederate army, 267. Instructions to Gen. J. E. Johnston, 296. Telegram to Gen. J. E. Johnston, 300. Cox, General, 372, 375. Coxe, Tench, 109. Crawford, Martin J., 239, 243. Commissioner from Confederacy to Lincoln, 212-228, 229, 230. Extract from manuscript on events transpiring in Washington, 229. Crittenden, J. C., 52, 58, 216. Crozet, Colonel, 387. Cushing, Caleb, 43. Speech introducing Davis to people of Boston, 473-78. D Dallas, —, 281. Davis, Col. J. R., 302, 303. Jefferson. Extension of Missouri compromise, 10. Compromise measures of 1850, 13-14; speech in Senate, 453-56; extract from spe