The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Svazek 1D. Appleton and Company, 1881 A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War. |
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Strana xiii
... Forts and Arsenals . - Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens.- The Alleged " Caucus " and its Resolutions . - Personal Motives and Feel- ings . The Presidency not a Desirable Office . - Letter from the Hon . C. C. Clay 199 CHAPTER II . Tenure ...
... Forts and Arsenals . - Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens.- The Alleged " Caucus " and its Resolutions . - Personal Motives and Feel- ings . The Presidency not a Desirable Office . - Letter from the Hon . C. C. Clay 199 CHAPTER II . Tenure ...
Strana xv
... Forts Sumter and Pickens . - Mr . Secretary Seward's Assurances . - Du- plicity of the Government at Washington . Mr. Fox's Visit to Charleston . -Secret Preparations for Coercive Measures . - Visit of Mr. Lamon . - Re- newed Assurances ...
... Forts Sumter and Pickens . - Mr . Secretary Seward's Assurances . - Du- plicity of the Government at Washington . Mr. Fox's Visit to Charleston . -Secret Preparations for Coercive Measures . - Visit of Mr. Lamon . - Re- newed Assurances ...
Strana xviii
... Forts Caswell and Johnson to the United States Government . - Condition of Missouri similar to that of Kentucky . - Hostilities , how initiated in Missouri . - Agreement between Generals Price and Harney . - Its Favorable Effects ...
... Forts Caswell and Johnson to the United States Government . - Condition of Missouri similar to that of Kentucky . - Hostilities , how initiated in Missouri . - Agreement between Generals Price and Harney . - Its Favorable Effects ...
Strana xx
... Forts in the Harbor of Charleston APPENDIX H. Speech of the Author on a Motion to print the Special Message of the ... Fort Sumter , from the Affair of the Star of the West , January 9 , 1861 , to the With- drawal of the Envoy of South ...
... Forts in the Harbor of Charleston APPENDIX H. Speech of the Author on a Motion to print the Special Message of the ... Fort Sumter , from the Affair of the Star of the West , January 9 , 1861 , to the With- drawal of the Envoy of South ...
Strana 199
... Forts and Arsenals . - Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens . - The Alleged " Cau- cus " and its Resolutions . - Personal Motives and Feelings . - The Presidency not a Desirable Office . - Letter from the Hon . C. C. Clay . WITH the failure ...
... Forts and Arsenals . - Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens . - The Alleged " Cau- cus " and its Resolutions . - Personal Motives and Feelings . - The Presidency not a Desirable Office . - Letter from the Hon . C. C. Clay . WITH the failure ...
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action adopted amendment APPENDIX appointed arms army Articles Articles of Confederation asserted assurance attack authority battle Beauregard brigade cause Charleston citizens Colonel command Commissioners communication compact Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution Convention Davis declared defense delegated duty enemy eral ernment Executive existing expressed Federal Government force Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts garrison Governor harbor honor hostile independence JEFFERSON DAVIS Johnston Kentucky Legislature letter Major Anderson Major ROBERT ANDERSON Manassas ment military militia Mississippi Missouri North Northern object officers organization P. G. T. Beauregard party peace Pickens political position possession present President principles proposition purpose question ratified received reënforcements referred regard regiments Representatives resolutions Richmond seceding secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent Seward slaves South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty Sumter territory tion troops Union United United States Army Virginia vote Washington withdraw
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Strana 667 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Strana 317 - Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Strana 188 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...
Strana 92 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Strana 28 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Strana 639 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Strana 49 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Strana 318 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Strana 181 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Strana 640 - All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.