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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 0 Browse Search
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. 12 2 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.) 8 0 Browse Search
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 II. 8 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
John James Geer, Beyond the lines: A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 1 1 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 2: (search)
Chapter 2: The convention of 1787 diversity of opinion Luther Martin's account of the three parties the question of representation Compromise effected Randolph's resolutions the word national condemned plan of Government framed difficulty with regard to ratification, and its solution provision for secession frion was undisputed. Beyond the common ground of a recognition of this necessity, there was a wide diversity of opinion among the members of the Convention. Luther Martin, a delegate from Maryland, in an account of its proceedings afterward given to the legislature of that state, classifies these differences as constituting thresidered this the object for which they were sent by their States, and what their States expected from them. In his account of the second party above described Martin refers to those representatives of the larger states who wished to establish a numerical basis of representation in the Congress, instead of the equal representat
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 7: (search)
titution as a compact or treaty, and repeatedly uses the terms accede and accession, and once the term secession. He asks what the opponents of the Constitution in Virginia would do, if nine other States should accede to the Constitution. Luther Martin of Maryland informs us that, in a committee of the general convention of 1787, protesting against the proposed violation of the principles of the perpetual union already formed under the Articles of Confederation, he made use of such languagemake an appeal to the Supreme Being, and call on Him to guarantee your observance of this compact? The same you have formerly done for your observance of the Articles of Confederation, which you are now violating in the most wanton manner. Luther Martin's Genuine information, in Wilbur Curtiss's Secret proceedings and Debates of the Convention, p. 29. It is needless to multiply the proofs that abound in the writings of the fathers to show that Webster's new vocabulary was the very langua
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
6. Checking enemy, 260. Maine, 63. Mallory, S. R., 175, 189, 272. Selected secretary of navy (Confederacy), 207. Manassas, Battle of. Preparation for, 300. Conflict, 302-05, 311-12. After the battle, 306, 310-11. Beauregard's plan for defense and the endorsement, 319-21. Extracts from narrative of Gen. Early, 322-28. Extract from reminiscences of Col. Lay, 329. Maney, —, 352. Marshall, John, 114, 151, 219. Extracts from speeches, 139-40. Thornton F., 338. Martin, Luther, 118. Description of three parties at Philadelphia constitutional convention, 82-83. Maryland, 42, 108. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 80. Ratification of Constitution, 93. Citizens of Baltimore resist passage of Federal troops, 259, 288. Position at beginning of war, 287-88. Commissioners sent to Confederate and U. S. governments, 289. Seizure of Baltimore by Federal troops, 289-91. Action of Gen. Banks against, 291-92. Extract from final message of