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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), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
ory of the United States, vol. 3, p. 90. Note.) The Senate took no final action on the subject. The Seminole war and its results brought Jackson into greater prominence than did the victory of New Orleans. In the meantime, the negotiations for the acquisition of Florida had been resumed and were progressing favorably. See the admirable article of Hon. J. L. M. Curry, The Acquisition of Florida, in American Magazine of History, April, 1888 July 19, 1818, Don Jose Pizarro wrote to Mr. Ewing, the United States minister at Madrid: In one of our late conferences I had the honor to state to you anew His Majesty's readiness to cede both the Floridas to the United States * * * in consideration of a suitable equivalent to be made to His Majesty in a district of territory situated to the westward of the Mississippi. Soon after this note the news arrived that Pensacola had been seized by the United States, and negotiations were suspended. They were resumed at Washington, October 24
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), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
afterward pushed these proffers of peace by a resolution, earnestly and respectfully requesting the President to appoint Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, and Thomas Ewing, and such others as he may select to meet a like commission from the Confederate States for the purpose of ascertaining before the renewal of hostilities shallr and Caperton from Virginia. In the House the members were distinguished for conservatism and ability, among whom were Curry, Clopton, and Pugh, Garland, Trippe, Ewing, Breckinridge, Conrad, Davis, Barksdale, Vest, Ashe, Boyce, Gentry, Vaughn, Bocock, and Boteler. Mr. Bocock was speaker and Albert Lamar clerk. The gravity of tights under the Constitution, was merely ordered to be printed, and another resolution in February, 1864, requesting the President to appoint Pierce, Fillmore and Ewing commissioners to meet Confederate commissioners before hostilities commenced, to ascertain whether honorable peace may not be made, was voted down, yeas 26, nays 9