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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 9: (search)
for withdrawal from the Union Northern precedents New England secessionists Cabot, Pickering, Quincy, etc. on the acquisition of Louisiana the Hartford convention the Massachusetts Legislature on state. In 1811, on the bill for the admission of Louisiana as a state of the Union, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, a member of Congress from Massachusetts, said: If this bill passes, it is my deliber, delegate from what was then the Mississippi territory, took exception to these expressions of Quincy, and called him to order. The Speaker (Varnum of Massachusetts) sustained Poindexter, and decidon of the Union was out of order. An appeal was taken from this decision, and it was reversed. Quincy proceeded to vindicate the propriety of his position in a speech of some length, in the course onant with obvious dangers and evils! It is to be remembered that these men—Cabot, Pickering, Quincy, and others—whose opinions and expressions have been cited, were not Democrats, misled by extrem
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
esented as the true interpretation, by the school of which Judge Story was the most effective founder. At an earlier period—but when he had already served for several years in Congress, and had attained the full maturity of his powers— Webster held the views which were presented in a memorial to Congress of citizens of Boston, December 15, 1819, relative to the admission of Missouri, drawn up and signed by a committee of which he was chairman, and which also included among its members Josiah Quincy. He speaks of the states as enjoying the exclusive possession of sovereignty over their own territory, calls the United States the American Confederacy, and says, The only parties to the Constitution, contemplated by it originally, were the thirteen confederated States. And again: As between the original States, the representation rests on compact and plighted faith; and your memorialists have no wish that that compact should be disturbed, or that plighted faith in the slightest degree
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
of Columbus, Ky., 336-37. Correspondence with Kentucky authorities, 337-41. Defense of Belmont, Mo., 346-47. Popular sovereignty, (See Squatter sovereignty). Porterfield, Colonel, 293. Powell, Senator, 53, 55, 58. Prentice, —, 339. Preston, Col. J. L. T., 391. Col. John S., 324. William, 342. Price, Gen., Sterling, 356, 361, 364, 367-68, 369-70. Agreement with Gen. Harney, 358-60. Extract from address to people of Mis-souri, 361-62. Pugh, —, 38. Q Quincy, Josiah, 63, 140. Right of secession, 62-63. Quitman, Gen. John A., 17, 18. R Rains, Gen. G. W. Establishment of powder mill, 274-75, 407-08. Randolph, Edmund, 84, 94, 136. Opposition to armed force against states, 151. John, 9. Raritan (ship), 285. Read, William B., 338. Reagan, J. H. Selected Postmaster-General (Confederacy), 209. Rector, Gov. of Arkansas. Reply to U. S. call for troops, 355. Relief squadron, 244. Republican convention, 42. Party