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July 20th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
e burned, sunk, or destroyed by any vessel commissioned as a privateer, of equal or inferior force. They also offered a bounty of $25 for every prisoner captured by a privateer and delivered to an agent of the Confederacy. Davis had not waited for this legal sanction, but issued commissions for privateers immediately after his proclamation, April 17. The government of the Confederate States was transferred from Montgomery to Richmond, and there the third session was opened at noon, July 20, 1861. The members were called to order by Howell Cobb. President Davis, in his message, congratulated his associates on the accession of States to the league; declared that the national government had revealed its intention to make the war one of subjugation; that the Confederates had not begun the war; that the Confederacy was a great and powerful nation ; that their nationality had been recognized by the establishment of blockades by sea and land ; and that the national government had re
February 11th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
red to be Secretary of the Treasury, and James Chestnut, Jr., who had resigned his seat in the United States Senate, was spoken of as a fitting head of the new nation. In the convention, Rhett counselled the same violence that the South Carolinians had practised in Charleston, and when his recommendations were met by calm opposition, he denounced his associates as cowards and imbeciles. If the people of Charleston should burn the whole crew in effigy I should not be surprised, he wrote Feb. 11, 1861. Men like Stephens, Hill, Brooke, and Perkins controlled the fiery spirits like Rhett and Toombs in the convention, and it soon assumed a dignity suited to the gravity of the occasion. The sessions were generally held in secret. On the second day Memminger, of South Carolina, offered resolutions declaring it to be expedient forthwith to form a confederacy of seceded States, and that a committee of thirteen be appointed to report a plan for a provisional government on the basis of the
April 3rd (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
te acting in its sovereign and independent character, etc. It was the Constitution of the United States, with certain omissions and alterations. It fixed the term of service of the President and Vice-President at six years, and made the former ineligible to re-election. The constitution was submitted to the several States for ratification. The convention of Alabama ratified it on March 13, 1861; of Georgia, on March 14; of Louisiana, March 21; of Mississippi, March 26; of South Carolina, April 3. In the Mississippi convention some of the ablest men proposed to submit the constitution to the people, but this idea was voted down by the voices of seventy-eight against seven. None of the conventions ever ventured to allow the people to vote freely on their own acts, or on the subject of forming a Southern Confederacy. For the full text of the Constitution see article on Southern Confederacy. The congress at Montgomery discussed the subject of a national flag. One model, Confed
February 9th (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
account of a tariff clause, the prohibition of the African slave-trade, and the adoption of the three-fifths rule of representation for slaves, as in the national Constitution. Let your people, he said, prepare their minds for a failure in the future permanent Southern constitution, for South Carolina is about to be saddled with almost every grievance, except abolition, against which she so long struggled, and for which she has just withdrawn from the United States government. On the 9th of February the president of the convention and all the members took the oath of allegiance to the provisional constitution, and at noon the doors of the hall were thrown open to the public, and the convention proceeded to the election of a President and a Vice-President of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was chosen President by unanimous vote; and by a like vote Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, was chosen Vice-President. The chairman of the convention appointed committees on
February 6th (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
nt forthwith to form a confederacy of seceded States, and that a committee of thirteen be appointed to report a plan for a provisional government on the basis of the Constitution of the United States, and that all propositions in reference to a provisional government be referred to that committee. Alexander H. Stephens then moved that the term congress, instead of convention, be used when applied to the body then in session, which was agreed to. Commissioners from North Carolina appeared (Feb. 6), and were invited to seats in the convention. They came only as commissioners from a State yet in the Union, instructed to effect an honorable and amicable adjustment of all the difficulties that distract the country, upon the basis of the Crittenden Compromise (q. v.) modified by the Virginia legislature. Their mission was fruitless, for that congress was opposed to any form of conciliation. On the 7th a resolution from the legislature of Alabama, offering the Provisional Government of
April 2nd, 1865 AD (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
ma, Attorney-General. Randolph resigned in the autumn, and James A. Seddon, a wealthy citizen of Richmond, was made Secretary of War in his place. On the same day a Congress assembled at Richmond, in which all the slave-labor States were represented excepting Maryland and Delaware. Devices for seals of the various departments were adopted, and the seals were made in England. While the inhabitants of Richmond, the Confederate capital, were at their respective places of worship (Sunday, April 2, 1865), the message from Lee, My lines are broken in three places; Richmond must be evacuated this evening, reached the doomed city. President Davis was at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church, when the message was put in his hands by Colonel Taylorwood. He immediately left the church. There was a deep and painful silence for a moment, when the religious services were closed and the rector (Dr. Minnegerode) dismissed the congregation after giving notice that General Ewell, the commander in Ric
March 13th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
e supremacy was fully recognized in the following words: We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, etc. It was the Constitution of the United States, with certain omissions and alterations. It fixed the term of service of the President and Vice-President at six years, and made the former ineligible to re-election. The constitution was submitted to the several States for ratification. The convention of Alabama ratified it on March 13, 1861; of Georgia, on March 14; of Louisiana, March 21; of Mississippi, March 26; of South Carolina, April 3. In the Mississippi convention some of the ablest men proposed to submit the constitution to the people, but this idea was voted down by the voices of seventy-eight against seven. None of the conventions ever ventured to allow the people to vote freely on their own acts, or on the subject of forming a Southern Confederacy. For the full text of the Constitution see article on Southern
March 14th (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
ized in the following words: We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, etc. It was the Constitution of the United States, with certain omissions and alterations. It fixed the term of service of the President and Vice-President at six years, and made the former ineligible to re-election. The constitution was submitted to the several States for ratification. The convention of Alabama ratified it on March 13, 1861; of Georgia, on March 14; of Louisiana, March 21; of Mississippi, March 26; of South Carolina, April 3. In the Mississippi convention some of the ablest men proposed to submit the constitution to the people, but this idea was voted down by the voices of seventy-eight against seven. None of the conventions ever ventured to allow the people to vote freely on their own acts, or on the subject of forming a Southern Confederacy. For the full text of the Constitution see article on Southern Confederacy. The congres
February 18th (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
l affairs, judiciary, patents and copyrights, and printing. All the laws of the United States not incompatible with the new order of things were continued in force temporarily. A committee was appointed to report a constitution of permanent government for the Confederacy. On the 13th a delegate from Texas took his seat in the convention. The others were on the way. Preparations were made for the organization of an army and navy, and to make provision for deserters from the old flag. On Feb. 18 Davis and Stephens were inaugurated, and the oath of office was administered to Davis by Howell Cobb, president of the congress. The convention authorized him to accept 100,000 volunteers, and to assume control of all military operations between the Confederate States; and at the middle of March it recommended the several States to cede to the Confederate States the forts, arsenals, dock-yards, and other public establishments within their respective domains which they had wrested from th
May 9th (search for this): entry confederate-states-of-america
nd stopping at the lower red stripe. In the centre of the union was a circle of white stars, corresponding in number to that of the States of the Confederacy. It was really the old flag—red, white and blue— with three alternate stripes, red and white, instead of thirteen such stripes. This flag was first displayed in public over the State-house at Montgomery, March 4, 1861. Jefferson Davis called the Confederate Congress to assemble at Montgomery on April 29, 1861. That body passed (May 9) an act of fifteen sections recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States, and concerning the commissioning of privateers. The preamble declared that the Confederate States had made earnest efforts to establish friendly relations between themselves and the United States, but the latter had refused and had prepared to make war upon the former and blockade its ports. Such being the case, they declared that war existed between the two governments. The
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