hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 6 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 6 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 4 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. 4 4 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 4 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) 4 4 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies 1 1 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 1 1 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. You can also browse the collection for November, 1860 AD or search for November, 1860 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 7: (search)
rants delegated to the federal government, or in other words to secede from the Union; in the South, however, this was generally regarded as the remedy of last resort, to be applied only when ruin or dishonor was the alternative. No rash or revolutionary action was taken by the Southern states, but the measures adopted were considerate, and executed advisedly and deliberately. The presidential election occurred (as far as the popular vote, which determined the result, was concerned) in November, 1860. Most of the state legislatures convened soon afterward in regular session. In some cases special sessions were convoked for the purpose of calling state conventions—the recognized representatives of the sovereign will of the people—to be elected expressly for the purpose of taking such action as should be considered needful and proper under the existing circumstances. These conventions, as it was always held and understood, possessed all the power of the people assembled in mass;
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
ter 8: Conference with the Governor of Mississippi the author Censured as too slow summons to Washington interview with the President his message movements in Congress the triumphant majority the Crittenden proposition speech of the author on Green's resolution the Committee of thirteen failure to agree the Republicans responsible for the failure proceedings in the House of Representatives Futility of efforts for an adjustment the old year closes in clouds. In November, 1860, after the result of the presidential election was known, the governor of Mississippi, having issued his proclamation convoking a special session of the legislature to consider the propriety of calling a convention, invited the Senators and Representatives of the state in Congress, to meet him for consultation as to the character of the message he should send to the legislature when assembled. While holding, in common with my political associates, that the right of a state to secede w