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Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Contents of Thie first volume. (search)
ommodore Stewart's Letter to Childs,186 133.Rebel Army at Pensacola,187 134.The Attack on Washington, Nat. Intelligencer,188 135.Maryland Commissioners' Report,190 136.New Jersey Troops--List of Officers,191 137.Faulkner, Dayton, and Seward's Correspondence,192 138.President Lincoln's Letter to Marylanders,193 139.Tilghman and Prentiss' Interview,194 140. Confederate Declaration of War,195 141.Patriotic Fund Contributions,197 142.20th Regiment N. Y. S. M. (Ulster Co.),198 143.Reverdy Johnson's Speech at Frederick, Md.,199 144.Tennessee League,201 145.Edward Everett's Address at Roxbury, Mass.,205 146.Gen. Butler's Orders at Relay House,208 146 1/2.Motley's Letter on Causes of the War,209 147.Secession Military Act,219 147 1/2.A. H. Stephens' Union Speech at Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 14, 1860,219 148.The English Press on the Fall of Sumter,228 149.A Prayer for the Times, (Charleston News,)230 150.Vermont Volunteers--1st Regiment,231 151.President Lincoln's Proclamat
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Introduction. (search)
the number necessary for a Constitutional amendment,] in whom the highest power known to the Constitution actually resides. In a recent patriotic speech of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, at Frederick, Md., on the 7th of May, the distinct authority of Mr. Calhoun is quoted as late as 1844 against the right of separate action on the part of aw material; the extension of that culture and the prosperity which it has conferred upon the South are due to the mechanical genius of the North. What says Mr. Justice Johnson of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a citizen of South Carolina? With regard to the utility of this discovery (the cotton gin of Whitney) the cour on the loyal citizens of Western Virginia; they are straining at the leash in Maryland and Kentucky; Tennessee threatens to set a price on the head of her noble Johnson and his friends; a civil war rages in Missouri. Why, in the name of Heaven, has not Western Virginia, separated from Eastern Virginia by mountain ridges, by clim
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Appendix. (search)
y could not hold that, as matter of law and regular political action, their ratification deed of May 23d, 1788, is repealed by their late ordinance. Most truly and respectfully yours, Geo. T. Cubtis. Mr. Everett. Appendix B, p. 22. Hon. Reverdy Johnson to Mr. Everett. Baltimore, 24th June, 1861. my dear Mr. Everett . I have your note of the 18th, and cheerfully authorize you to use my name, as you suggest. The letter I read in the speech which I made in Frederick, should be conduced, seemingly without knowing it, in his later life, to surrender to section what was intended for the whole, his great powers of analysis and his extraordinary talent for public service. If such a heresy, therefore, as constitutional secession could rest on any individual name, if any mere human authority could support such an absurd and destructive folly, it cannot be said to rest on that of Mr. Calhoun. With sincere regard, your friend, Reverdy Johnson. Hon. Edward Everett, Boston.