Life of Jefferson Davis, with a Seceret History of the Southern Confederacy, Gathered "behind the Scenes in Richmond.": Containing Curous and Extraordinary Information of the Principal Southern Characters in the Late War, in Connection with President Davis, and in Relation to the Various Intrigues of His AdministrationNational Publishing Company, 1869 - 536 páginas |
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Página 287 - Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
Página 43 - ... in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States, or from any other existing cause, to justify its dissolution...
Página 466 - Hon. Mr. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States. It continued for several hours, and was both full and explicit. " We learned from them that the Message of President Lincoln to the Congress of the United States, in December last, explains clearly and distinctly, his sentiments as to...
Página 118 - Reverently let us invoke the God of our fathers to guide and protect us in our efforts to perpetuate the principles which by his blessing they were able to vindicate, establish, and transmit to their posterity.
Página 124 - Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone, will I ever again draw my sword.
Página 466 - We understood from him that no terms or proposals of any treaty or agreement looking to an ultimate settlement, would be entertained or made by him with the authorities of the Confederate States because that would be a recognition of their existence as a separate power which under no circumstances would be done; and for like reasons that no such terms would be entertained by him from the States separately.
Página 437 - I am the person to advise Mr. Davis; and if I were he, I would die or be hung before I would submit to the humiliation that Congress intended him.
Página 257 - Every person, being a commissioned officer or acting as such in the service of the enemy, who shall during the present war excite, attempt...
Página 80 - That the provisions of the Constitution are ample for the preservation of the Union, and the protection of all the material interests of the country : that it needs to be obeyed rather than amended ; and that an extrication from...
Página 235 - ... so lately derided and threatened with entire subjugation. The fortitude -with which you have borne toil and privation, the gallantry with which you have entered into each successive battle, must have been witnessed to be fully appreciated ; but a grateful people will not fail to recognize you, and to bear you in loved remembrance. Well may it be said of you that you have ' done enough for glory ' ; but duty to a suffering country and to the cause of constitutional liberty claims from you yet...