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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: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n by this generation." To this splendid plan for submerging the rights of the States beneath the waves of a popular majority, President Davis expressed a decided repugnance.--"The people of Virginia," he said, "cannot vote slavery out of South Carolina, and the people of South Carolina cannot vote slavery out of Virginia." Nothing, however, could cure the loquacity of the Yankee. He had a remedy ready for the disease.--What does the reader suppose it was? Why, three-fourths of the States South Carolina cannot vote slavery out of Virginia." Nothing, however, could cure the loquacity of the Yankee. He had a remedy ready for the disease.--What does the reader suppose it was? Why, three-fourths of the States were to amend the Constitution, and slavery was to be abolished, &c. That is to say, it is proposed to stop the war by putting us once more at the mercy of a Yankee majority. The President calmly, and, we suspect, somewhat contemptuously replied, "We seceded to rid ourselves of the rule of the majority. " Here is the Yankee reply and the President's rejoinder: "But the majority must rule finally, either with ballets or bullets." "I am not so sure of that. Neither current events nor histor