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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of honorable R. T. Bennett, late Colonel 13th North Carolina Infantry, C. S. A. (search)
and reasoning, in politics, saw the impending danger and gave the alarm. Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, advised secession on the part of the South as early as 1820. There was no doubt then about the right of a State to secede from the Union. Rawle, the Pennsylvanian, in his book on the Constitution, says: The secession of a State from the Union depends on the will of the people of such State. The States then may wholly withdraw from the Union, but while they continue they must retain the character of representative republics. Tucker, of Virginia, is as explicit as Rawle on this point. President Jefferson Davis wrote me, July 1st, 1886: Rawle on the Constitution, was the text-book at West Point, but when the class of which I was a member entered the graduating year, Kent's Commentaries were introduced as the text-book on the Constitution and international law. Though not so decided on the point of State sovereignty, he was very far in advance of the consolidationists o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
nd Federal Forces, disparity between, 95. Confederate Generals who died in poverty, 65; senior, now living, 388. Confederate Heroism, 54, 63. Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 387. Confederate Morals, 81, 107, 367. Confederate Prisoners; hardships of; placed under Confederate fire, 127. Confederate States, Medical officers of, 165. Confederate Supplies, Want of, 90. Constitution, The, Atlanta, Ga., cited, 122. Constitution of the U. S. nullified, 27. Kent and Rawle on the, 83. Cox, Mrs., Lucy Ann, a Confederate heroine, 54. Courier, Bristol, Va., cited, 127. Crawford, Hon W. H., 83. Crouch, Nicholas M., 377. Cullingworth, Col., Wm. H., 349. Daniel, Hon. John W. His able tribute to Gen. Jubal A. Early, 288. Delaware, Fort, Prisoners at, 144. De Renne, Mrs., Mary. Her admirable collection of Confederate Memorials, 389. Dispatch, The, Richmond, Va., cited, 20, 24, 48, 69, 281, 336. Dixon, 21st Alabama Infantry, Lieut. His heroic se