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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 332 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 110 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. 68 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 32 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 28 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 24 0 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. 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 20 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 20 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 20 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
of Kansas was the first question that gave rise to exciting debate after my return to the Senate. The celebrated Kansas-Nebraska bill had become a law during the administration of Pierce. As this occupies a large space in the political history of tfe, was revived, and found occasion for renewed discussion in the organization of territorial governments for Kansas and Nebraska. The Committees on Territories of the two houses agreed to report a bill in accordance with that recognized principle, representatives of the North to apply it to the territory then recently acquired from Mexico. In May, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed; its purpose was declared in the bill itself to be to carry into practical operation the propositions antment, and the public opinion of their descendants, stronger than the law, fully sustained it. The climate of Kansas and Nebraska was altogether unsuited to the negro, and the soil was not adapted to those productions for which negro labor could be p
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
o which the suggestions would be carried and the consequences that would result from it. In the organization of a government for California in 1850, the theory was more distinctly advanced, but it was not until after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, in 1854, that it was fully developed under the plastic and constructive genius of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The leading part which that distinguished Senator had borne in the authorship and advocacy of the Kansas-Nebraska bNebraska bill, which affirmed the right of the people of the territories to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, had aroused against him a violent storm of denunciation in the state which he represented and in other Northern states. He met it very manfully in some respects, and defended his action resolutely, but in so doing was led to make such concessions of principle and to attach such an interpretation to the bill as wo
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
the year 1821. In 1825 he resigned his seat in the Senate and removed to Havana, where he lived for many years, actively engaged in the same pursuit, as president of a slave-trading company. The story is told of him that, on being informed that the trade was to be declared piracy, he smiled and said, So much the better for us—the Yankees will be the only people not scared off by such a declaration. (It will be remembered that it had already been declared inoperative and void by the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854.) Instead of accepting the decision of this then august tribunal—the ultimate authority in the interpretation of constitutional questions—as conclusive of a controversy that had so long disturbed the peace and was threatening the perpetuity of the Union, it was flouted, denounced, and utterly disregarded by the Northern agitators, and served only to stimulate the intensity of their sectional hostility. What resource for justice—what assurance of tranquillity—what guara
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
e, George P., 290. Kansas, 12, 23, 24, 31. Settlement, 26, 27. Speech of Davis on President's message relative to Lecompton constitution, 465-69. Kansas-Nebraska bill, 23, 24-25, 33, 71. Terms, 25-26. Kearsarge (ship), 408. Keitt, Col. Lawrence M., 206. Kelley, General, 392. Kennedy, —, 292. Kenner, mpbell, 232, 233. Musser, Col. R. H., 369. Myers, Col. A. C. Quartermaster general of Confederacy, 268. N Nashville Convention of 1849, 198. Nebraska, 24. Settlement, 26. Nelson, Judge, 231, 232, 233. New Hampshire, 63. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 80. Ratification of Constiadoption of Federal Constitution, 1, 71. Moral considerations, 1, 3-4. Importation prohibited, 2-3. Abolition petition, 2, 29. Extension, 4, 5; to Kansas and Nebraska, 26. Occasion but not cause of conflict, 65-66. Summary up to 1860, 66. Under control of states, 67. Recognition by Constitution, 67-69. Dred Scott case, 70