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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ated, in its successful canvas in 1856, the declaration made in numerous previous political contests, that it would "faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1799, and that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed." The principles thus emphatically announced embrace that to which I have already adverted, the ri to judge of, and redress the wrongs of which it complains.--These principles were maintained by overwhelming majorities of the people of all the States of the Union at different elections, especially in the elections of Mr. Jefferson in 1805, Mr. Madison in 1809, and Mr. Pierce in 1852. In the exercise of a right so ancient, so well established, and so necessary for self- preservation, the people of the Confederate States in their Conventions, determined that the wrongs which they had suf