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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 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) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 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. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Frozen in a sleigh. (search)
Prospects of reconstruction. A Northern paper intimates that when Lincoln reaches Washington he will become more conservative, and that, under the auspices of the border States, the seceding States will be tolled back into the Union. It founds this idea in part upon the fact that gentlemen of such well known moderation and weight of character as Jefferson Davis, A. H. Stephens, &c., are at the head of the new Confederacy. We draw an inference entirely opposite from that fact. Men of that cast do not embark their fortunes in perishable schemes. Moreover, they all declare, with one voice, that reconstruction is now out of the question. A gentleman of this city who has lately returned from a tour in the States of the new Confederacy, says that the people universally hoot at the idea of reconstruction. They declare that they have been so often deceived by pretended concessions and compromises that they have no idea on the face of the earth of being finally duped to their destr
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], $20 reward. (search)
e for Virginia to hesitate in deciding the question. He then quoted from the South Carolina ordinance of secession, to show that the people declared they had never parted with their independence and sovereignty. When all else had failed, justice required a resort to arms South Carolina believes her cause is just.--She had maintained it a reasonable time, and now a Confederation of sovereign States has come to her aid. [He then read from the inaugural address of the new President. Jefferson Davis. to show that "obstructions may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by justice and sustained by the honor of a virtuous people." In conclusion, Mr. Preston said; And now, gentlemen, believing that our interests which have been invaded, and our rights which have been violated, are identical with Virginia, we come to renew our ancient amity and our common glory. The people of South Carolina have ordered me to ask, earnestly and respectfully, t