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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,286 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 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. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 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) 272 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Charleston Sequestration case. (search)
e. Government would scarcely claim to administer law by a metaphor. Was that strict construction to say that inasmuch as one thing could be done, therefore something like it might also be done? Mr. Petigru read from the first volume of South Carolina Statutes. Was all this (his quotation,) false? Had Dr. Cooper lived in vain, spoken in vain, thought in vain, written in vain? The Confederacy was but an agent. The State was sovereign. All through South Carolina, from the Santee to the South Carolina, from the Santee to the Pee Dee, there was but one sovereign. Sovereigns could do wrong. It was of the essence of sovereignty to do wrong, otherwise law would be above that power.--Such things as this writ had been tried before. The Star Chamber subpœna, the general warrant, but these have all found resistance. Mr. Petigru, in the course of his argument, illustrated his positions by reference to the course of English history, the lives of Chief Justice Pratt, John Wilkes, and Lord Camden. The District Attorney
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Piscatory. (search)
was reported that the operators discovered that a strange hand was tinkering with the instruments at Pass Christian last evening — supposed to be an amateur operator who came with the Lincoln bombarders. The Federal winter blockade. The Wilmington Journal observes that to keep a force on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts during the winter, the Federals must have possession of some harbor or harbors south of Cape Hatteras, say Beaufort harbor in North Carolina, or Port Royal harbor in South Carolina, and either Brunswick, Georgia, or Fernandina, Florida. Their only chance on the Gulf is Key West, but in certain states of the wind neither that nor the Tortuga is safe, and the last named is deficient in water. It they try to get into Pensacola or Mobile the effort will be costly. Without a harbor of refuge in nearly three thousand miles of dangerous coast, a winter blockade could hardly be kept up. Stranding of the Ship Thomas Watson. This incident of the blockade has been