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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
suggest to the government a true military avoidance of such a catastrophe by pursuing with the Army of Northern Virginia the same general strategy that General Johnston adopted with the Army of the Tennessee? I put the plain question to Vice-President Stephens, while he was defending Petersburg in view of Johnston's retreat before Sherman, namely: Who of our generals is the greatest in your eyes? The reply came promptly: I am decidedly of the opinion that General Joseph Johnston has the clearest understanding of any of the military policy necessary to final success. In this I prefer him. I have always regretted that opinion of Mr. Stephens, because I have never been content to believe that the defence of Petersburg was the generalship of Lee as a feature of his strategy. When we come to institute parallels between the generals of our armies—one in Virginia and the other in the more Southern States—we encounter the resistance of President Davis or his government to all. That fea
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why the Confederate States did not have a Supreme Court. (search)
he provisions of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof. How a session of a court could be held before there was a court, I do not understand. But that was the law as passed. That was the end of the attempt to organize a Supreme Court of the Confederate States. The reasons for the failure to proceed further have not been recorded as far as I know. Neither President Davis, in his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, nor Mr. Stephens, in his War Between the States, anywhere mention the subject, and the only light which can now be shed on the question are the contemporaneous reports of the debates in Congress, in the Enquirer, the Examiner, and the Dispatch of that period. The files of these papers are not accessible to me, but I get a glimmer of the reason from a statement to me by Judge Keith, of the Supreme Court. He told me that when he was on picket duty he read by the light of a camp fire a long and venomo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] (search)
the protection of the Constitution of the United States, Lincoln replied: That so far as the confiscation acts and other penal acts were concerned, their enforcement was left entirely with him, and in that point he was perfectly willing to be full and explicit, and on his assurance perfect reliance might be placed. He should exercise then the power of the Executive with the utmost liberality—that is, that pardons should be plentiful and hangings scarce.—--The War Between the States, by A. H. Stephens, Volume II, page 617. He went on to say, says Mr. Stephens, that he would be willing to be taxed to remunerate the Southern people for their slaves. He believed the people of the North were as responsible for slavery as the people of the South, and if the war should then cease, with the voluntary abolition of slavery by the States, he should be in favor, individually, of the government paying a fair indemnity for the loss to the owners. He said he believed this feeling had an extens
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ames A., 317. Sedgwick, General, John, killed, 37. Seward, W. H., 375. Sharpsburg, Battle of, 49, 200. Sheridan, General P. H., 173, 314. Slavery, Virginia did not fight for, 76; pro-tested against continuation of, 77; the emancipation proclamation, 64. Slave trade, Debate on the, in 1858, 99. Smith, Mrs. F. H., 184, 259 South, Vindication of the, 60; cause of the, 119. Southern Historical Society-Its history, 344. Stanton, E. M., 369. Star Spangled Banner, 120. Stephens, Alex. H., 375. Steuart, R. D., 176. Stewart, Colonel W. H., 205, 383. Stiles, Major, Robert, 17, 349. Stiles, Rev. Joseph C., D. D., 17. Stonewall, The C. S. gunboat, 219. Stonewall Jackson Camp, C. V.. 377. Stuart, General J. E. B., 303. Sumerton road, Engagement on the, 208. Sussex Light Dragoons, Roster of, 97. Taliaferro, General W. B., 39. Tarheels' thin gray line, 170. Torbert, General A. T. A., 273, 314. Tucker, Sergeant G. W., 26. Tucker, Henry St. George, 29