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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 974 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 442 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 288 0 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) 246 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 216 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. 192 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 166 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 146 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 144 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 136 0 Browse Search
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eracy passed their respective ordinances of dissolution as follows: Vote State.Date.Yeas.Nays. South Carolina.Dec. 20, 1860169 MississippiJan. 9, 18618415 AlabamaJan. 11, 18616139 FloridaJan. 11, 1861627 GeorgiaJan. 19, 186120889 LouisianaJan. 25, 186111317 The New Confederacy. At this particular juncture it will also be interesting, in view of coming legislation, to note some of the statistics of the several seceding States with reference to their population, State debt, &c. They are as follows: Population in 1860. Free.Slave.State Debt in 1859. South Carolina308, 186407,185$6,192.743 Georgia615,336467,4002,632,722 Alabama520,444435,4735,888,134 Mississippi407,051479,6077,271,707 Louisiana354,245312, 18610,703,142 Florida81,88563,800158,000 2,287,1472,165,651 2,287,147 Total4,452,798 This is a population exceeding by 522,926 that of 1790, at the close of the Revolutionary war. The Rejoicing in New Orleans. New Orleans, Feb. 9.-
f Virginia.[Extra session.]Senate. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1861. Called to order at 12 o'clock. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Saul. A communication from the House of Delegates announcing the passage of sundry bills, was read. A communication from Gov. Letcher was laid before the Senate, in regard to the mission of Hon. John Robertson, Commissioner from Virginia to the seceding States. Ordered to be printed. Also, a message, transmitting a communication from Gov. Moore, of Louisiana, enclosing a copy of the Ordinance of Secession, passed by that State on the 26th January, accompanied by a copy of a joint resolution relative to the free navigation of the Mississippi river. Gov. Letcher also announced that he had received communications from the Executives of the States of Indiana and New York, enclosing resolutions adopted by you on the 19th day of January last. Ordered to be printed. Bills Reported.--The following bills were reported: A bill for the relief of Th
ciety of Alexandria; incorporating the Springfield and Deep Run Turnpike Company; incorporating the Richmond City Insurance Company. Petition.--Mr. McCamant presented the petition of John Early and other citizens of Carroll county, asking the incorporation of a Copper Smelting Company. Secession Ordinance — Free Navigation of the Mississippi, &c. --The Speaker laid before the House a message from Gov. Letcher, transmitting a communication from Thomas O. Moore, Governor of the State of Louisiana, enclosing a copy of the Ordinance of Secession, passed on the 26th of January last, accompanied by a copy of a joint resolution relative to the free navigation of the Mississippi river. The Governor sent in, also, communications from the Executives of the States of Indiana and New York, enclosing resolutions adopted by the Legislatures of each of those States, in response to the resolutions adopted by the Virginia Legislature, on the 19th day of January, for the appointment of Commis
In and out. --In New Orleans last week, a newspaper reporter, hailing from the land of Erin, rushed hastily to take out his naturalization papers as a citizen of the United States. Just as he had signed his name and pocketed his papers making him a citizen of the United States, the booming cannon and the ringing of bells announced to the people that Louisiana was out of the United States.
uestion; and now the opinions of the people cannot be changed. They might legislate till the ride ceased to flow, and yet the South would believe that slavery was right. They might legislate till the sun grew tired in his course, and yet the Northern mind would retain the belief that slavery was a moral and political evil. This was a subject on which it was useless to legislate. His proposition was to do as their fathers had done in 1820. In that year the slavery question in the Territory of Louisiana was agitated. How was that agitation met and settled?--Their fathers at once applied a remedy. They drew a line between the slave and free States, saying that north of that line slavery should not be, but south of it that slavery might exist. The result was that peace was restored to the country — an undisturbed peace of thirty years--during which time the country devoted itself to the developing of their natural resources" If, as Mr. Kellogg avers, nothing can change the be
Commissioners to Washington, all of which were ordered to be printed. Several local bills were reported and petitions presented. The Senate agreed to meet hereafter at 10 o'clock M. Among the resolutions of inquiry was one for a bill to incorporate the Baltimore and Fredericksburg Steamboat Company. Bills were passed to legalize the purchase and running of steamboats in connection with the York River Railroad; to protect the interest of the State in railroad and steamboat companies plying between Baltimore and Weldon; also, to authorize Clerks of certain Courts to take orders of publication in vacation. In the House, a number of Senate bills were received, read by title and referred. Two were passed. Among the House bills passed was one incorporating the Richmond City Insurance Company. The secession ordinance of Louisiana and certain resolves of the General Assemblies of Indiana and New York were read and ordered to be printed. The House meets to-day at 11 o'clock.