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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16,340 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3,098 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2,132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,974 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,668 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,628 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) 1,386 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,340 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. 1,170 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1,092 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the seceded states, upon the pretext of the enforcement of the laws of the United States, or upon any pretext whatsoever. 2 That she solemnly protests against the use of the standing army and navy of the United States to the General Government, and the concentration of troops at the Federal metropolis, and at various fort. Carlile said he had heard much about coercion. Now, the President of the United States had expressly denied the right of coercion. The only instance in which he issouri Compromise was put there by the South, and the Supreme Court of the United States pronounced it null and void. Mr. Morris.--Who put the Wilmot Proviso tollows: Resolved, That since the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Chisholm us, the State of Georgia, and the adoption of the e 1. That the compact by which the several sovereignties composing the United States of North America were united in a confederacy, has been repeatedly violated
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ollowing is the object. Art. 1 in all the Territory of the United States and embraced within the limits of the Cherokee newly grant, mortory of persons held to labor or involuntary service within the United States, according of the laws or usages of any State from which such p State may provide. Territory shall not be acquired by the United States unless by treaty, nor, except for naval commercial stations ando labor or involuntary service in any State or Territory of the United States, to any other State or Territory thereof where it is establishe The foreign slave trade, and the important of slaves into the United States and their Territories, from places beyond the present limits a the States. Art. 7 Congress shall provide by law that the United States shall pay to the owner the full value of his fugitive from laboCommittee of the Peace Congress dined with the President of the United States yesterday at the Executive mansion. The affair was a pleasant
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], English view of American growth. (search)
English view of American growth. --The London Times has an editorial on the extraordinary growth of the United States, from which the following is an extract: If the threatened dissolution of the United States should be actually consummated, its citizens will enjoy a singular opportunity of contemplating, at the very crUnited States should be actually consummated, its citizens will enjoy a singular opportunity of contemplating, at the very crisis of their destinies, the magnitude and splendor of the political fabric which they have just destroyed. The year of the Secession was also the year of the Census. At the moment that the Federal Government was receiving the envoys of independent Carolina it was receiving also the returns of population and progress from the sev on balancing his accounts will indulge himself in computing the prospective accumulations of such a surplus as he has just discovered.--They made out that the United States would contain at the period which has now arrived an aggregate population of 31,095,535. The reckoning has actually been verified, and with a little to spare.
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
s, or ships of war, in time of peace, is omitted. 5th. The Constitution being provisional merely, no provision is made for its ratification. Amendments. 1st. The fugitive slave clause of the old Constitution is so amended as to contain the word "slave," and to provide for full compensation in cases of abduction, or forcible rescue, on the part of the State in which such abduction or rescue may take place. 2d. Congress, by a vote of two-thirds, may, at any time, after or amend the Constitution. Temporary provisions. 1st. The Provisional Government is required to take immediate steps for the settlement of all matters between the State forming it, and their other late confederates of the United States, in relation to the public property and the public debt. 2d. Montgomery is made the temporary seat of Government. 3d. This Constitution is to continue one year, unless altered by a two-thirds vote, or superseded by a permanent Government.
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
s arrival: San Francisco,Jan. 30, 3.40 P. M. --Extreme dullness prevails in every branch of trade, except domestic produce. There is no disposition to purchase any imported articles, except to supply the daily consumption, with no change whatever in prices. The domestic produce trade is limited for want of supplies prices are firm at former rates. The work on the new Almaden quicksilver mines has been resumed. The attempted caucus of the Douglas Democrats on the United States Senatorial question has failed. The tendency of parties still favors a coalition between the Republicans and Northern Douglas sites on the one side, and between the chivalry wing of the Douglasites and the Breckinridge Democrats on the other, thus reducing the Legislature to two parties of about equal strength. With the latter coalition General Denver stands the best chance, while the Republicans and Northern Douglasites are giving a divided support to Messrs. Randolph, Curry and McDou
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terribly cold. (search)
ask nothing and want nothing. We will have no complications. If other States join our Confederacy they can freely come on our terms. Our separation is complete. No compromise, no reconstruction can now be entertained. A large crowd awaited Mr. Davis' arrival at the Exchange. The ladies were equally enthusiastic with the gentlemen. At a quarter before 11 o'clock, in response to loud calls, Mr. Davis appeared in the balcony, and said: Fellow-citizens: Brethren of the Confederate States of North America--for now we are brethren, not in name but in fact. Men of one flesh, one bone, one interest, one purpose of identity in our institutions. We have henceforth, I trust, a prospect of living together in peace with our institutions, subject to protection, not defamation. It may be that our career may be ushered in in storm. It may be that as this morning opened with clouds and mist, we shall have to encounter inconveniences at the beginning, but as the sun rose and lif