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Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
tution, but it had been too firmly established by the highest Federal authority to admit of question that no such power had been delegated to any department of the general government. The executive department of the government, before the administration of Mr. Lincoln, recognized this principle, and it had been established by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, the final arbiter under the Constitution of all questions of Federal rights, powers, and duties. The State of Kentucky sought to invoke the power of the Federal Government to compel the Governor of Ohio to perform a duty enjoined upon him by the Constitution and an act of Congress made in pursuance of it. The Supreme Court first determined that the Constitution and the law plainly made it the duty of the Governor of Ohio to perform the act in question, and then proceeded to use this language: And it would seem that when the Constitution was framed and this law was passed, it was confidently belie
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
e question of calling a convention. The vote was taken on the 28th of February, 1861, and resulted in 46,671 for and 47,333 against holding a convention. In Tennessee, on the 8th of February, 1861, the people voted against calling a convention, 67,360 against and 54,156 for the measure, the total vote being nearly 24,000 less new Territories of the West, where the climate and productions resemble those to which they were accustomed. It was by this class of emigrants that Kentucky and Tennessee, and afterwards a great part of Missouri, had been mainly settled, and many of the same class would doubtless have removed further West with the advance of popultion, one was called immediately upon the appearance of the proclamation, which met on the 20th of May and passed an ordinance of secession the following day. In Tennessee, which had refused to call a convention in February, the people ratified an ordinance of secession on the 24th of June by a vote of 104,019 to 47,238, as announc
Hollywood (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
rganizing an association to erect a monument in Richmond. The following officers of the association were elected: President, General Jubal A. Early; Secretary, Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott; Treasurer, Colonel William H. Palmer; Auditor, Sergeant C. P. Allen. There was an executive committee located in Virginia, and a chairman provided for an executive committee of each Southern State. The co-operation of the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association was also invited. Hollywood associations appeal. The following is a copy of the circular by which this collection was made: The undersigned, connected with the Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond, Va., respectfully request the friends and admirers of General Robert E. Lee, in our whole country and abroad, to unite with them in a contribution for an equestrian bronze statue of our chieftain, of the best workmanship, to be erected in the soldiers' portion of Hollywood cemetery. A most eligible site, o
Westmoreland (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
Venable, Charles Marshall, Walter H. Taylor, Henry E. Peyton, and Robert E. Withers; Commodore M. F. Maury, Captain R. D. Minor, of the Confederate States Navy, and scores of others of our leading officers, and hosts of the ragged veterans of the rank and file. The meeting was called to order by General Bradley T. Johnson, General Jubal A. Early was appointed temporary chairman, and Captain Campbell Lawson and Sergeant George L. Christian, of Richmond, and Captain George Walker, of Westmoreland county, temporary secretaries. Ex-President Jefferson Davis was made permanent chairman. General Early, on taking the chair, delivered an eloquent and worthy address, concluding as follows: Monuments of marble or bronze can add nothing to the fame of General Lee, and to perpetuate it it is not necessary that such should be erected. But the student of history in future ages, who shall read of the deeds and virtues of our immortal hero, will be lost in amazement at the fact that s
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
M. F. Maury, Captain R. D. Minor, of the Confederate States Navy, and scores of others of our leadin free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authoritter 1 of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, adopted on the 9th of February, 1861, icontinue in force certain laws of the United States of America. Be it enacted by the Confederate s assembled, That all the laws of the United States of America in force and in use in the ConfederatStates to the remaining territories of the United States was insignificant. On the other hand, many the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, the final arbiter under the Constitution all take possession of the treasury of the United States and use the public money as I see fit, thrntrol of the purse and of the sword of the United States. I suspend the writ of habeas corpus, andit to the exercise by the President of the United States of powers unwarranted by the Constitution [17 more...]
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
s a sufficient cause for their action. South Carolina led the way on the 17th of December, 1860, and was followed by the others—Texas having been the last to secede. Her representatives subscribed the provisional Confederate Constitution at Montgomery on the 2d of March, 1861. On the 11th of that month these States, through their representatives, adopted the permanent Confederate Constitution. To understand the full effect of this important step, and how it was regarded by the great maje laws of the country as they stood when Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1861. But that there was nothing in Federal legislation obnoxious to the cotton States themselves at the time the Confederate Government was organized at Montgomery, is shown by the very first act of the Provisional Congress. Statute 1, chapter 1 of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, adopted on the 9th of February, 1861, is as follows: An act to continue in force certain laws of
Runnymede (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
e in defense of which Robert Edward Lee drew his stainless sword and won his deathless fame. It has been said that the cause of the South was the worst that any people ever fought for. To those who measure national greatness by the acre, and know no national welfare that does not bear the stamp of the mint, the cause was bad, but not so in the eyes of the children of that holy covenant between the power of the State and the liberty of the people, the first lines of which were written at Runnymede, whose leaves are stained with the blood of countless martyrs, and to which the hand of Washington set the blood-red seal at Yorktown. To them the cause was one for which it was an honor to fight and a glory to die. To-day. We are here to-day to honor ourselves by doing honor to the memory of the foremost champion of that cause. If we look for a moment at the result of the method of composing the troubles of the country in 1861, adopted by Mr. Lincoln, I do not think that much
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
nia from the Union under certain conditions were rejected by decisive and significant majorities. Without going into the details of the action of Kentucky and Missouri during the same time, it is enough to say that prior to April 15, 1861, the people of those States were, if possible, more decided in their opposition to secessimate and productions resemble those to which they were accustomed. It was by this class of emigrants that Kentucky and Tennessee, and afterwards a great part of Missouri, had been mainly settled, and many of the same class would doubtless have removed further West with the advance of population in that direction. To these peoplence of secession was adopted by a vote of 88 to 55, and the majority vote was afterwards increased to 91. The change in the feeling of the people of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland was equally marked, although its free expression was prevented by force, and the action of the Federal Government was resented where the ability to
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
e of securing concert of action in regard to the proceeding contemplated. I would also invite to that conference the surviving officers and soldiers of all the other Confederate armies as well as the officers, sailors and marines of the Confederate navy. The call would have been made sooner, but for my absence, up to this time, in a country where there are no railroads or telegraphs, and where I was detained by imperative duties. Your friend and late fellow-soldier, Jubal A. Early. Lynchburg, Va., October 24, 1870. Pursuant to this call there assembled at the First Presbyteriar Church, in Richmond, on Thursday evening, November 3d, 1870, the grandest gathering of Confederate soldiers which had met since the war. This church then stood upon the upper portion of the site now occupied by our imposing City Hall. Among the leading officers who participated in the meeting were Generals Early, John B. Gordon, Edward Johnson, I. R. Trimble, W. B. Taliaferro, William Smith, W. N.
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.12
th reference to duties on imports, but secession had not been resorted to in order to relieve the seceding States from legislation on the subject of duties. A remarkable illustration of what I now say occurred during the discussion in the convention of South Carolina of the address proposed to be issued to the people of the slave-holding States, declaring the causes of the action of that State. Mr. Maxey Gregg, afterwards the brave General Maxey Gregg, who died nobly on the field of Fredericksburg, objected to the form of an address for that purpose submitted by Mr. Memminger because it did not set forth the causes of the secession of South Carolina correctly. He said: In the declaration not one word is said about the tariff, which for so many years caused a contest in this State against the Federal Government. Not one word is said about the violations of the Constitution in expenditures not authorized by that instrument, but the main stress is laid upon an incomparably unimp
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