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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some great constitutional questions. (search)
the Constitution itself, to be sufficient for the establishment of it. At the conclusion of his most exhaustive historical and constitutional argument, the author asserts that the whole case against Davis, Lee et als, is based on a perversion of the principles of our polity— based, to use his own language—solely on falsehood, fraud and violence; and he contends that it is only on ground, composed of these detestable ingredients that their gibbet can be erected. In December, 1865, Charles O'Connor characterized the work as an admirably prepared and overwhelmingly conclusive brief for Davis's defence, and, some time afterward, he employed the author in the case; the Philadelphia Ledger stated that a most important argument had been received by the President from London, in which are set forth the reasons why Davis cannot be convicted in any court; and many leading papers of that day noticed the work as one of extraordinary research and ability, specially designed to show that Davi