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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The causes of the war [from the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C., November 28, 1897.] (search)
ng the Constitution were in a position exactly analogous to that of the Confederate States in 1861. Finally, in 1790, the last of the original thirteen States acceded to the new Constitution (some of them with great reluctance, New York and Rhode Island expressly reserving the right to secede), and the United States of America was launched upon its career. It is worthy of thoughtful consideration that the Northern States declared in convention, that they had but one motive for forming a Covery therein, because when any such Territory shall be admitted into the Union as a State, the people thereof will be entitled to decide that question exclusively for themselves. Passed the Senate—yeas 35, nays 9—Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island voting in the negative. Calhoun's bill of Wrongs. Mr. Calhoun, in his speech in the Senate, March 4, 1850, sets forth the long course of injustice perpetrated by the North on the South in their attempt to abridge the constitutional right
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
ove the correctness of this statement. [This statement having been called in question, Major Daves, in the Raleigh, N. C., Post of May 24, 1901, offered the following in proof of its correctness]: States.Lincoln's Majority over all Competitors.Electoral Vote. Connecticut,10,2384 Illinois,5,63911 Indiana,5,92313 Iowa,12,4874 Maine,27,7048 Massachusetts,43,89113 Michigan,22,2136 Minnesota,9,3334 New Hampshire,9,0855 New York,50,13635 Ohio,20,77923 Pennsylvania,59,61827 Rhode Island,4,5374 Vermont,24,7725 Wisconsin,20,0405 — Total167 Fifteen States. Necessary to choice,152 — Majority,15 If it be claimed that if the three opposing candidates had withdrawn in favor of a single one to oppose Mr. Lincoln, many persons who supported the latter would have voted for such an one, Honorable Stephen A. Douglas, himself one of the candidates, gives the answer. In reply to such a proposition from Honorable Jefferson Davis, Mr. Douglas said that if he were withdrawn,