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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 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) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
nator Wigfall, of Texas, was taken up. Mr. Foster advocated the adoption of his motion to that effect — not as a personal matter, but as a duty — the Senator having announced himself a foreigner, not owing allegiance to this Government. He made a long speech, containing no particular argument, except anti- secession. Mr. Clingman followed. He thought Mr. Foster had made a bad point. If the resolution was adopted, it would acknowledge Texas as out of the Union. Why not expel Jefferson Davis, the head of the Sovereign Republic? Why should the Senator from Texas be singled out? If Texas was not out of the Union, he is still entitled to a seat here. Mr. Mason remarked that the resolution called for the expulsion of Mr. Wigfall, for what he had said on the floor of the Senate.--The Constitution enabled the Senate to protect itself by conferring the power of expulsion, by a two-thirds vote, for disorderly conduct, but not, as in this case, for asserting a constitutional