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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 7: (search)
ouglas of Illinois was nominated by the friends of the doctrine of popular sovereignty, with Fitzpatrick of Alabama for the vice presidency. Both these gentlemen at that time were Senators from their respective states. Fitzpatrick promptly declined the nomination, and his place was filled with the name of Herschel V. Johnson, a distinguished citizen of Georgia. The convention representing the conservative, or state-rights, wing of the Democratic party (the president of which was the Hon. Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts) on the first ballot unanimously made choice of John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, then Vice-President of the United States, for the first office, and with like unanimity selected General Joseph Lane, then a Senator from Oregon, for the second. The resolutions of each of these two conventions denounced the action and policy of the Abolition party, as subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their tendency. Another convention was held in Baltimore about
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix E (search)
of 1858 Davis visited Boston, and was invited to address a public meeting at Faneuil Hall. He was introduced by the Hon. Caleb Cushing, with whom he had been four years associated in the cabinet of President Pierce. Cushing's speech, on account ofCushing's speech, on account of its great merit, is inserted here, except some complimentary portions of it. Mr. President—Fellow-Citizens: I present myself before you at the instance of your chairman, not so much in order to occupy your time with observations of my own, as t It required not this to confirm me in a belief I have so long and so happily enjoyed. Your own great statesman [the Hon. Caleb Cushing], who has introduced me to this assembly, has been too long associated with me, too nearly connected, we have labave heard the address of your candidate for Governor; and these, added to the address of my old and intimate friend, General Cushing, bear to me fresh testimony, which I shall be happy to carry away with me, that the Democracy, in the language of yo
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix F (search)
staining the proposition that the Federal Government has power to establish a temporary civil government within the limits of a Territory, but that it can enact no law which will endure beyond the temporary purposes for which such government was established. In other cases the decisions of the Court run in the same line; and in 1855 the then Attorney-General, most learned in his profession—and in what else is he not learned, for he may be said to be a man of universal acquirements?—Attorney-General Cushing then foretold what must have been the decision of the Supreme Court on the Missouri Compromise, anticipating the decision subsequently made in the case of Dred Scott; that decision for which the venerable justices have been so often and so violently arraigned. He foretold it as the necessary consequence from the line of precedents descending from 1842, affirmed and reaffirmed in different cases, and now bearing on a case similar in principle, and only different in the mere referen
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
essions quoted, 100-01. Cooper, Samuel, 21, 308, 392-93. Resignation from U. S. Army, 267. Attachment to Confederate army, 267. Instructions to Gen. J. E. Johnston, 296. Telegram to Gen. J. E. Johnston, 300. Cox, General, 372, 375. Coxe, Tench, 109. Crawford, Martin J., 239, 243. Commissioner from Confederacy to Lincoln, 212-228, 229, 230. Extract from manuscript on events transpiring in Washington, 229. Crittenden, J. C., 52, 58, 216. Crozet, Colonel, 387. Cushing, Caleb, 43. Speech introducing Davis to people of Boston, 473-78. D Dallas, —, 281. Davis, Col. J. R., 302, 303. Jefferson. Extension of Missouri compromise, 10. Compromise measures of 1850, 13-14; speech in Senate, 453-56; extract from speech relative to slavery in territories, 457-64. Reflection to Senate, 16, 22. Nomination for governor, 17; defeat, 18. Letter to Brown of Indiana, 18-19. Member of Pierce's cabinet, 20-22. Extracts from speech on master and servant, 26-27. E