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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 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) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 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. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tion's misfortunes. We must have the evidence all before us that be ordered this and that unfortunate movement before we bring in a verdict of guilty against Jefferson Davis. "They say" and "the reliable gentleman" will not do forus. "They say" is a notorious har, and "the reliable gentleman" is generally an ass or a knave. But sThe very people who are now called upon to chop it into firewood! How do we know that any other idol which the same hands construct will be any more a good? Jefferson Davis is the creation, not the creator of the Revolution; and if the Revolution fails it is as fair to attribute it to its own inherent weakness as the incompetencur servant and our agent has steadily maintained, under the most extraordinary provocation, the humanity and moderation of the Southern character. But if Jefferson Davis cannot claim the credit of inaugurating this Revolution; if he is but the honored instrument selected by the people themselves for their chief; if he has mani
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
not afford the blood and treasure which would be required for that purpose. Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, (Democrat) said that there was not power in the Government, by any act of legislation, to interfere with the domain of any State to control slavery or any other institution, the control of which was not delegated to the General Government. The institution of slavery, he repeated, belonged to the State, and no combination of men can by legislative enactment, abolish it therein. Mr. Davis, of New York, (Union) said that the argument of Mr. Rogers was that civil liberty consisted in the right of one people to enslave another. So far from this being true, nature made all men free, and entitled them to all civil rights before the law, and on this principle the Government must stand, and sooner or later it will be the recognized principle throughout the world. Slavery should find no apologist and defender among those who represent the Free States, and slavery should die, beca